New article by Naïma Hamrouni (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, CRÉ), in collaboration with Isabelle Martineau and Johanne Hébert, entitled “From ontological to relational: A scoping review of conceptions of dignity invoked in deliberations on medically assisted death”, published in BMC Medical Ethics.

Summary

Dignity is omnipresent in Western ethics, but it also provokes dissension and controversy. One of the most striking examples is the debate on medically assisted death, where dignity is invoked to support antagonistic positions. While some authors conclude that the concept is useless as an ethical reference, many others invite us to deepen our analysis from a multidimensional perspective, to enrich it and make it useful. This scoping study is intended to provide an overview of the different conceptions of dignity used in the assisted dying debate, to better grasp the multiple facets of the concept.