Protection of Life and Human Dignity: The German Debate between Christian Norms and Secular Expectations
The German debate on bioethics and medical ethics turns on a change in the meaning of human dignity. Such dignity is increasingly rendered contingent upon a person's empirically assessable quality of life. In contrast to such dignity-endowed human life, a merely biological human life is taken t...
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Oxford University Press
[2010]
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Christian bioethics
Year: 2008, Volume: 14, Issue: 1, Pages: 58-77 |
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