Table of Contents

One / Sanctity of Life.- The Concept of Sanctity of Life and Its Use in Contemporary Bioethical Discussion.- Sanctity of Life, Voluntary Euthanasia and the Dutch Experience: Some Implications for Public Policy.- Value of Life vs. Sanctity of Life — Outlines of a Bioethics that Does without the Concept of Menschenwürde.- Sanctity of Life and Human Dignity at the Bedside.- Two / Human Dignity.- Human Dignity: Philosophical Origin and Scientific Erosion of an Idea.- The General Notion of Human Dignity and the Specific Arguments in Medical Ethics.- Ambiguities in the Concept of Menschen-würde.- Human Dignity and Genetic Tests.- Three / The Concept of a Person.- The Concept of a Person in Moral Philosophy.- Alterity and Judgment — Some Moral Implications of Hegel’s Concept of Life.- Persons as “Self-Originating Sources of Value”.- Four / Problems of Critical Care.- Sanctity of Life and Menschenwürde: Can These Concepts Help Direct the Use of Resources in Critical Care?.- Not Sanctity or Dignity, but Justice and Autonomy: Key Moral Concepts in the Allocation of Critical Care.- Sanctity of Life and the Neonatalogist’s Dilemma.- Five / The Role of the State.- The Sanctity of Human Life: Secular Moral Authority, Biomedicine, and the Role of the State.- On the Appeal for the Recognition of Human Dignity in Law and Morality.- The Concept of Human Dignity: An Annotated Bibliography.- The Sanctity of Life: A Literature Review.- Notes on Contributors.