Human Dignity
A Living Right in Medical Treatment
- Written By: Dr. Dana Blander, Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer, Dr. Carmit Haber
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- Cover Type: Soft
- Number Of Pages: 15 Pages
- Center: Center for Democratic Values and Institutions
In this volume we would like to put flesh on the link between human dignity as a constitutional principle and human dignity as a fundamental right, and as a lived experience in medical treatment, as was presented, each in his own way, by the late Chief Justice Meir Shamgar and by Edmund Pellegrino, a world-renowned expert on medical ethics.
A tangible expression of Human dignity is found in the Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty, whose second article stipulates: “There shall be no violation of the life, body or dignity of any person as such.”