Dignity plays a central role in current thinking about law and human rights, but there is sharp disagreement about its meaning. Combining conceptual precision with a broad historical background, Michael Rosen puts these controversies in context and offers a novel, constructive p…
My work concerns the issue of whether the survivors of the Nazi medical experiments (and, by extension, survivors of all unethical experiments) should be given control of the obtained data. First, I explore the argument that using the data harms the survivors, because using it v…
Human dignity and assisted death
Assisted dying and human dignity are two extremely contested topics in Bioethics. This volume offers the first book-length attempt to bring both together. Its authors develop detailed philosophical analyses of dignity, and how it relates to assisted suicide and euthanasia.