Dignity as a Human Right? - by George P Smith (Paperback)

About the Book

This book examines the place of human dignity as a normative standard, principle, or right in domestic and global health care decision-making. The contentious issue of end-of-life care serves the foundation of the analysis of human dignity as a human right.

Book Synopsis

This book examines the place of human dignity as a normative standard, principle, or right in domestic and global health care decision-making. The contentious issue of end-of-life care serves the foundation of the analysis of human dignity as a human right.

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The concept of dignity is a core one to lawyers and philosophers, yet it is often misunderstood and misapplied. In Dignity as a Human Right?, Professor George P. Smith, one of the world's greatest medical lawyers, clarifies the concept of dignity as a human right in an insightful, significant and powerful analysis.

With this deep, nuanced, analytic dive into human dignity, Professor Smith draws on and, indeed, extends his prior influential and leading scholarly work in bioethics, its particular and various intersections with the law, and how it might inform vexingly complex and crucial end-of-life questions

About the Author

George P. Smith is professor emeritus of law at The Catholic University of America Law School and a residential fellow at The Institute for Advanced Study at Indiana University in Bloomington.