The concept of dignity has occasioned a robust conversation in recent healthcare
scholarship. When viewed as a whole, research on dignity in healthcare has engaged each …

Philosophy publications and in particular healthcare philosophy papers which include the
term dignity as a major discussion point are numerous. Indeed, dignity has become …

Abstract Jacobson (Social Science & Medicine 64: 292–302, 2007) finds two distinct
meanings of “dignity” in the literature on dignity and health:(1) intrinsic human dignity and (2) …

Over the past few decades the concept of (human) dignity has deeply pervaded medical
ethics. Appeals to dignity, however, are often unclear. As a result some prefer to eliminate …

The word 'dignity'is used in a variety of ways in bioethics, and this ambiguity has led some to
argue that the term must be expunged from the bioethical lexicon. Such a judgment is far too …

Philosophers and bioethicists are typically sceptical about invocations of dignity in ethical
debates. Many believe that dignity is essentially devoid of meaning: either a mere rhetorical …

Abstract Drawing on Lennart Nordenfelt's distinction between the four distinct senses of
dignity, I elucidate the meaning of dignity in the context of research involving human …

In this paper, we draw on a phenomenological–philosophical foundation to clarify the
meaning of dignity as a coherent phenomenon. Consistent with an evocation of its central …

I reconsider the concept of dignity in several ways in this article. My primary aim is to move
dignity in a more relational direction, drawing on care ethics to do so. After analyzing the …

The discussion of the nature and value of dignity in and for bioethics concerns not only the
importance of the concept but also the aims of bioethics itself. Here, I challenge the claim …