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Sanctity of Life and Human Dignity

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    Chapter 1 The Concept of Sanctity of Life and Its Use in Contemporary Bioethical Discussion
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    Chapter 2 Sanctity of Life, Voluntary Euthanasia and the Dutch Experience: Some Implications for Public Policy
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    Chapter 3 Value of Life Vs. Sanctity of Life — Outlines of a Bioethics That does without the Concept of Menschenwürde
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    Chapter 4 Sanctity of Life and Human Dignity at the Bedside
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    Chapter 5 Human Dignity: Philosophical Origin and Scientific Erosion of an Idea
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    Chapter 6 The General Notion of Human Dignity and the Specific Arguments in Medical Ethics
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    Chapter 7 Ambiguities in the Concept of Menschenwürde
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    Chapter 8 Human Dignity and Genetic Tests
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    Chapter 9 The Concept of a Person in Moral Philosophy
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    Chapter 10 Alterity and Judgment: Some Moral Implications of Hegel’s Concept of Life
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    Chapter 11 Persons as “Self-Originating Sources of Value”
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    Chapter 12 Sanctity of Life and Menschenwürde: Can These Concepts Help Direct the Use of Resources in Critical Care?
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    Chapter 13 Not Sanctity or Dignity, But Justice and Autonomy: Key Moral Concepts in the Allocation of Critical Care
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    Chapter 14 Sanctity of Life and the Neonatologist’s Dilemma
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    Chapter 15 The Sanctity of Human Life: Secular Moral Authority, Biomedicine, and the Role of the State
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    Chapter 16 On the Appeal for the Recognition of Human Dignity in Law and Morality
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Chapter title
Human Dignity: Philosophical Origin and Scientific Erosion of an Idea
Chapter number 5
Book title
Sanctity of Life and Human Dignity
Published by
Springer, Dordrecht, January 1996
DOI 10.1007/978-94-009-1590-9_5
Book ISBNs
978-9-40-107212-0, 978-9-40-091590-9
Authors

Kurt Bayertz, Bayertz, Kurt

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Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 7%
Unknown 14 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Professor 4 27%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 13%
Student > Bachelor 1 7%
Student > Master 1 7%
Other 1 7%
Unknown 4 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 6 40%
Philosophy 3 20%
Engineering 1 7%
Unknown 5 33%