The concept of dignity is notoriously vague. In this paper it is argued that the reason for this
is that there are three versions of dignity that are often confused. First we will take a short …

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 term 'dignity'is used in a variety of ways but always to attribute or recognize some status
in the person. The present paper concerns not the status itself but the virtue of …

The word “dignity” is frequently used both in clinical and philosophical discourse when
referring to and describing the ideal conditions of the patient's treatment, particularly the …

In her 2003 article in the British Medical Journal, Ruth Macklin provocatively declared dignity
to be a useless concept: either a vague restatement of other more precise values, such as …

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 …

Human dignity is one of the key concepts of our ethical evaluations, in politics, in
biomedicine, as well as in everyday life. In moral philosophy, however, human dignity is a …

As a part of a research project on Dignity and Older Europeans (Fifth Framework (Quality of
Life) Programme) I explore in this paper a set of notions of human dignity. The general …

Dignity appears to be an important concept in ethics. The word is used frequently in
international documents such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United …

It is difficult to understand the meaning of 'dignity'in human rights, bioethics and nursing
literature because the word is used so vaguely. Unless dignity's meaning is spelt out it can …