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“Dignity In Living And In Dying”: The Henry H. H. Remak Memorial Lecture, George P. Smith Ii
“Dignity In Living And In Dying”: The Henry H. H. Remak Memorial Lecture, George P. Smith Ii
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Dignity is seen commonly as an ethical obligation owed to human persons. The dimensions of this obligation in today's post secular society are, however, subject to wide discussion and debate; for the term, human dignity, and its preservation, defies universal agreement. Yet, its preservation, together with the prevention of indignity, is a guiding principle or at least a vector of force in a wide range of issues ranging from recognizing and protecting the civil rights of the citizen members of the LGBTQ community throughout the nation to the care of the disabled and to the dying.
In clinical medicine, safeguarding …