Human Dignity

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When animals count more than people

Michael Cook | 11 June 2011 |

tags: animal rights, Australia, human dignity

Treat animals with kindness, by all means. But don't forget about people.

Warriors in pink

Pedro Dutour | 11 March 2011 |

tags: human dignity, Mexico, migration

From south of the border come stories of selfless courage and compassion.

Has the age of computer overlords begun?

Robert Moniot | 23 February 2011 |

tags: computing, human dignity

An IBM computer has thrashed two human champions in the quiz show Jeopardy! Is it game over for humanity?

Names and the value of a human person

Uchenna Uzo | 25 January 2011 |

tags: Africa, children, human dignity, names

Western nations may have much to learn from naming traditions in Africa

Heroine of human dignity: Mildred Fay Jefferson

Rebekah Hebbert | 13 December 2010 |

tags: abortion, heroes, human dignity, medicine

The first black woman to graduate from Harvard medical school used her position to defend the humanity of the unborn.

Obama’s empathy problem

Zac Alstin | 18 November 2010 |

tags: empathy, human dignity, Obama

How could the US President have failed to exhibit the quality at the heart of his moral code?

Chevalier in the fight for human dignity

Michael Cook | 02 November 2010 |

tags: euthanasia, France, human dignity

France has just given its highest dignity to a courageous woman who battled locked-in syndrome and quadriplegia to fight for the disabled. 

What one man can do

Liu Xiaobo | 12 October 2010 |

tags: China, human dignity, Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Prize

"Our high regard for dignity is the natural source of our sense of justice," says the latest Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

Being human is no big deal

Theron Bowers | 11 August 2010 |

tags: animal rights, forum, human dignity, Peter Singer

Are human beings just a smarter species of animal or is there something transcendentally different about them?

The dark side of American exceptionalism

Michael Cook | 07 July 2010 |

tags: human dignity, prisons

Why is 1 in 18 men in the world’s richest nation on probation, on parole or in jail?

Plastinated people

Michael Cook | 07 April 2010 |

tags: human dignity

Is it offensive to human dignity to display naked corpses posed like shop-window mannequins?

Suffering with dignity

Margaret Somerville | 22 January 2010 |

tags: death, euthanasia, human dignity

We must find meaning in dying, to make it the last great act of living.

The downside of risk reduction

Matthew Hanley | 22 January 2010 |

tags: harm reduction, human dignity, sti's

Containing the STD epidemic by harm reduction robs people of hope that they can change their lives.

The puzzle of human dignity

Margaret Somerville | 26 November 2009 |

tags: euthanasia, human dignity

Both sides of the euthanasia debate claim to be advancing the cause of human dignity. Whom should we believe?

Death panel dudgeon

Michael Cook | 26 October 2009 |

tags: death panels, human dignity

A very public disagreement between two prominent American bioethicists shows that they have only themselves to blame for attacks on their profession.

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