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President’s Council on Bioethics Publishes Bostrom on Posthuman Dignity
Posted: Mar 16, 2008

The latest volume from the President’s Council (and hopefully the last), Human Dignity and Bioethics, (Full Document PDF) includes a chapter by Nick Bostrom on “Dignity and Enhancement” (PDF)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1: Bioethics and the Question of Human Dignity (Schulman)

Chapter 2: Human Dignity and Respect for Persons: A Historical Perspective on Public Bioethics (Davis)

Chapter 3: How to Protect Human Dignity from Science (Dennett)

Chapter 4:  Human Dignity and the Mystery of the Human Soul (Kraynak)

Chapter 5: Human Dignity from a Neurophilosophical Perspective (Churchland)

Chapter 6: Human Uniqueness and Human Dignity: Persons in Nature and the Nature of Persons (Rolston)

Chapter 7: Human Dignity and the Future of Man (Rubin)

Chapter 8: Dignity and Enhancement (Bostrom)

Chapter 9: Human Dignity and Public
Discourse (Neuhaus)

Chapter 10: Modern and American Dignity (Lawler)

Chapter 11: Human dignity: Exploring and Explicating the Council’s Vision (Meilaender)

Chapter 12: Defending Human Dignity (Kass)

Chapter 13: Kant’s Concept of Human Dignity as a Resource for Bioethics (Shell)

Chapter 14: Human Dignity and Political Entitlements (Nussbaum)

Chapter 15: The Irreducibly Religious Character of Human Dignity (Gelernter)

Chapter 16: The Nature and Basis of Human Dignity (Lee, George)

Chapter 17: Two Arguments From Human Dignity (Weithman)

Chapter 18: Dignity and Bioethics: History, Theory, and Selected Applications (Sulmasy)

Chapter 19: Human Dignity and the Seriously Ill Patient (Dresser)

Chapter 20: The Lived Experience of Human Dignity (Pellegrino)

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