SAFP CPD Program: CPD Article

Dignity

R. Graham
South African Family Practice | Vol 45, No 6 | a1925 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/safp.v45i6.1925 | © Copyright Status: Not provided. Contact Holding Institution to verify copyright status. Rights Holder: South African Academy of Family Physicians
Submitted: 11 September 2011 | Published: 30 June 2003

About the author(s)

R. Graham, Medical Protection Society, United Kingdom

Full Text:

PDF (898KB)

Abstract

It is important to consider, albeit occasionally, issues, words or concepts commonly utilised in medicine. Dignity, is a word or, probably more correctly a concept that one now only occasionally encounters. Death with dignity is used in justification of euthanasia, while some arguments may claim that cloning is an affront to human dignity. Dignity is also regularly referred to in aspirational, philosophical or legal texts.

Keywords

medicine; dignity

Metrics

Total abstract views: 1932
Total article views: 1720


Crossref Citations

No related citations found.