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Beyleveld, Beryck; Brownsword, Roger

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“…In health and healthcare, dignity is featured in many professional practice codes, is a key concept in fields like palliative and long-term care, and also arises in discussions of healthcare service delivery performance and reform [ 1 - 5 ]. Although somewhat controversial in North America, dignity is central to the "new bioethics" that has emerged in Europe over the last decade [ 6 - 8 ]. Dignity and human rights are historically and conceptually coupled in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights [ 9 - 11 ].…”

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A taxonomy of dignity: a grounded theory study

Jacobson

2009

BMC Int Health Hum Rights

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BackgroundThis paper has its origins in Jonathan Mann's insight that the experience of dignity may explain the reciprocal relationships between health and human rights. It follows his call for a taxonomy of dignity: "a coherent vocabulary and framework to characterize dignity."MethodsGrounded theory procedures were use to analyze literature pertaining to dignity and to conduct and analyze 64 semi-structured interviews with persons marginalized by their health or social status, individuals who provide health or social services to these populations, and people working in the field of health and human rights.ResultsThe taxonomy presented identifies two main forms of dignity–human dignity and social dignity–and describes several elements of these forms, including the social processes that violate or promote them, the conditions under which such violations and promotions occur, the objects of violation and promotion, and the consequences of dignity violation. Together, these forms and elements point to a theory of dignity as a quality of individuals and collectives that is constituted through interaction and interpretation and structured by conditions pertaining to actors, relationships, settings, and the broader social order.ConclusionThe taxonomy has several implications for work in health and human rights. It suggests a map to possible points of intervention and provides a language in which to talk about dignity.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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A taxonomy of dignity: a grounded theory study

Jacobson

2009

BMC Int Health Hum Rights

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“…129–130; Herring, 2013, p. 55; Heaslip, 2013, p. 20; Herring, 2016, p. 1). Indeed, given the unavoidable possibility and probability of experiences that threaten these basic interests, the experience of our shared vulnerability is personally and socially transformative, providing a foundation for self-awareness and self-acceptance, interpersonal understanding and moral imagination (Nussbaum, 1996, p. 35; Hoffman et al ., 2013, p. 8; Beyleveld and Brownsword, 2001, pp. 114–117; Bielby, 2016, pp.…”

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“…26–27; Grear, 2010, pp. 113, 130–136) as well as the vulnerability of our agency (Beyleveld and Brownsword, 2001, pp. 114–117; Bielby, 2016) as the justifying ground for holding rights.…”

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Not ‘us’ and ‘them’: towards a normative legal theory of mental health vulnerability

Bielby

2018

International Journal of Law in Context

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In this paper, I develop the basis of a normative legal theory of mental health vulnerability. In Section 2, I conceptualise mental health vulnerability by integrating a universal understanding of vulnerability with a subjective-evaluative, psychosocial and dimensional account of mental health. In Section 3, I move on to consider the significance of mental health vulnerability for legal theory through an encounter with perspectives on vulnerability offered by MacIntyre, Fineman and Del Mar. This offers an insight into the normative foundations of mental health vulnerability. In Section 4, I outline a normative framework for mental health vulnerability that involves a synergy of rights and care. This extends Engster's idea of ‘a right to care’ to mental health and highlights the role of care and rights in mitigating power imbalances and inequality in relation to mental health. In concluding, I suggest future directions for research on mental health vulnerability.

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“…For example, in the preamble of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with Regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine (Oviedo Convention), we read that the European Council is “conscious that the misuse of biology and medicine may lead to acts endangering human dignity,” in the sense that biotechnologies could treat human beings in a manner not appropriate for the being they are. In the Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights proclaimed by UNESCO, we find the same lesson, for example, in Article 2: “Dignity makes it imperative not to reduce individuals to their genetic characteristics and to respect their uniqueness and diversity.” Medicine and biology could reduce human beings to the status of objects for experiment or could consider them as completely determined by their genome, thus treating them as non-persons (Beyleveld and Brownsword 2002 ).…”

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Human Dignity as a Component of a Long-Lasting and Widespread Conceptual Construct

Baertschi

2014

Bioethical Inquiry

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For some decades, the concept of human dignity has been widely discussed in bioethical literature. Some authors think that this concept is central to questions of respect for human beings, whereas others are very critical of it. It should be noted that, in these debates, dignity is one component of a long-lasting and widespread conceptual construct used to support a stance on the ethical question of the moral status of an action or being. This construct has been used from Modernity onward to condemn slavery and torture as violations of human dignity. In spelling it out, we can come to a better understanding of what “dignity” means and become aware that there exists a quite useful place for this notion in our ethical thought, albeit a modest one.

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A taxonomy of dignity: a grounded theory study

A taxonomy of dignity: a grounded theory study

Not ‘us’ and ‘them’: towards a normative legal theory of mental health vulnerability

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