Human dignity in the Nazi era: Implications for contemporary bioethics

BMC Medical Ethics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  O'Mathúna, Dónal P ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

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Indexed keywords

BIOETHICS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN DIGNITY; IDEOLOGY; MEDICAL ETHICS; PHILOSOPHY; POLICY; REVIEW; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; ANIMAL RIGHTS; DEHUMANIZATION; ETHICS; EUTHANASIA; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC SELECTION; HISTORY; HOLOCAUST; HUMAN RIGHTS; MEDICAL GENETICS; PERSONHOOD; POLITICAL SYSTEM; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOBIOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRENDS;

ANIMAL RIGHTS; BIOETHICAL ISSUES; BIOETHICS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DEHUMANIZATION; ETHICAL RELATIVISM; EUGENICS; EUTHANASIA; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HOLOCAUST; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; NATIONAL SOCIALISM; PERSONHOOD; PHILOSOPHY; PUBLIC POLICY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SOCIOBIOLOGY; VALUE OF LIFE;

EID: 33745603068     PISSN: 14726939     EISSN: 14726939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6939-7-2     Document Type: Review

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