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• Title:Human dignity, human rights, and responsibility : the new language of global bioethics and biolaw / Yechiel Michael Barilan.
  
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• Variant Title:New language of global bioethics and biolaw
  
• Author/Creator:Barilan, Yechiel Michael, 1966-
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: BJ1533.R42 B37 2012
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Donor bookplate
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Respect for persons.
  Bioethics.
  Medical ethics.
  Human rights.
  
• Medical Subjects: Bioethics.
  Ethics, Medical.
  Human Rights.
  Personhood.
  
• Description:xiv, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:Basic bioethics.
  
• Summary:"'Human dignity' has been enshrined in international agreements and national constitutions as a fundamental human right. The World Medical Association calls on physicians to respect human dignity and to discharge their duties with dignity. And yet human dignity is a term--like love, hope, and justice--that is intuitively grasped but never clearly defined. Some ethicists and bioethicists dismiss it; other thinkers point to its use in the service of particular ideologies. In this book, Michael Barilan offers an urgently needed, nonideological, and thorough conceptual clarification of human dignity and human rights, relating these ideas to current issues in ethics, law, and bioethics. Combining social history, history of ideas, moral theology, applied ethics, and political theory, Barilan tells the story of human dignity as a background moral ethos to human rights. After setting the problem in its scholarly context, he offers a hermeneutics of the formative texts on Imago Dei; provides a philosophical explication of the value of human dignity and of vulnerability; presents a comprehensive theory of human rights from a natural, humanist perspective; explores issues of moral status; and examines the value of responsibility as a link between virtue ethics and human dignity and rights. Barilan accompanies his theoretical claim with numerous practical illustrations, linking his theory to such issues in bioethics as end-of-life care, cloning, abortion, torture, treatment of the mentally incapacitated, the right to health care, the human organ market, disability and notions of difference, and privacy, highlighting many relevant legal aspects in constitutional and humanitarian law"--Publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780262017978 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  0262017970 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
  Overview of the Book in Three Paragraphs
  Human Dignity: The Challenges
  On the Terminology Used in This Book
  Cultural Orientation
  On the Methodology
  Human Dignity and Rights Today: The Agenda
  2. Hermeneutics and the History of Human Dignity
  Overview of the History of Human Rights
  Hermeneutics of the Biblical Sources
  Judaism
  Stoicism
  Christianity
  Torture: Turning One against Oneself
  Lactantius
  Slavery and Human Dignity
  Ezra, Lactantius, and Marx
  From Lactantius to Liberation Theology
  Freedom in the History of Human Dignity
  Physical, Psychological, and Cultural Diversity
  Freedom and Chosen Slavery
  Augustine's Descendance Principle
  God's Friend
  Brief Authority of Man's Glassy Essence
  Immanuel Kant
  Enlightenment and Modernity
  Human Dignity as a Phenomenology of Humanness and Solidarity
  Suffering and Human Dignity
  History of Human Dignity: A Synthetic Summary
  Challenges to the Future of Human Dignity
  3. Reconstructing Human Dignity as a Moral Value
  Introduction
  Blessed Coincidences
  Culture, Codes of Honor, and Human Dignity
  Reverse Engineering of Human Dignity
  Ten Uses of Human Dignity
  Embeddedness in Reality and the "Moral Point of View"
  Freedom and Human Dignity: Five Meanings
  Vulnerability
  Enforcement
  4. Human Rights or Natural Moral Rights
  Outline of a Definition
  Penology and Rights
  Metaethics and Rights
  Claim Rights Take Shape in Deliberative Democracies
  Human Rights as Recipient-Centered Norms for Agents
  Contracts and Promises
  Will and the Interests
  Hybridization of Interests and Will in Human Rights
  Transcendental Choices
  Implicit Maxims of Self-Alienation
  Right to Property
  Right to Privacy
  5. Moral Status
  Introduction
  Shifting Harm or Diversion Dilemmas
  Conditions for Inviolability and Human Rights
  Speciesism and the Argument from Marginal Cases
  On the Moral Status of Unborn Humans
  Dominion, Sexuality, Intimacy, and Care
  6. Responsibility beyond Human Rights
  Responsibility and Dignity
  Human Dignity within Responsibilities of Intimacy
  Responsibility for the Ethos of Human Dignity and the Conditions of Rights
  7. Synthetic Summary
  Summary of the Key Philosophical Arguments
  Existence, Identity, and Moral Status.