Abstract
BackgroundThis paper has its origins in Jonathan Mann's insight that the experience of dignity may explain the reciprocal relationships between health and human rights. It follows his call for a taxonomy of dignity: "a coherent vocabulary and framework to characterize dignity."MethodsGrounded theory procedures were use to analyze literature pertaining to dignity and to conduct and analyze 64 semi-structured interviews with persons marginalized by their health or social status, individuals who provide health or social services to these populations, and people working in the field of health and human rights.ResultsThe taxonomy presented identifies two main forms of dignity–human dignity and social dignity–and describes several elements of these forms, including the social processes that violate or promote them, the conditions under which such violations and promotions occur, the objects of violation and promotion, and the consequences of dignity violation. Together, these forms and elements point to a theory of dignity as a quality of individuals and collectives that is constituted through interaction and interpretation and structured by conditions pertaining to actors, relationships, settings, and the broader social order.ConclusionThe taxonomy has several implications for work in health and human rights. It suggests a map to possible points of intervention and provides a language in which to talk about dignity.
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In The Renaissance Philosophy of Man Edited by: Cassirer E, Kristkeller PO, Randall Jr, RH
As signaled by its title, this paper has its origins in Jonathan Mann's insight that dignity is fundamental to health and human rights separately, but may serve to explain the link between the two: that is, the relationships between the societal achievement, or failure, of human rights goals and individual and collective health status may be mediated by the experience of dignity [12]
The data for the analysis described in this paper were drawn from the literature and from 64 interviews conducted with individuals from one or more of three groups: persons marginalized by their health or social status; individuals who provide health or social services to these populations; and people working in the arena, broadly defined, of health and human rights
Summary
In The Renaissance Philosophy of Man Edited by: Cassirer E, Kristkeller PO, Randall Jr, RH. Public Law. This paper has its origins in Jonathan Mann's insight that the experience of dignity may explain the reciprocal relationships between health and human rights. This paper has its origins in Jonathan Mann's insight that the experience of dignity may explain the reciprocal relationships between health and human rights It follows his call for a taxonomy of dignity: "a coherent vocabulary and framework to characterize dignity.". As signaled by its title, this paper has its origins in Jonathan Mann's insight that dignity is fundamental to health and human rights separately, but may serve to explain the link between the two: that is, the relationships between the societal achievement, or failure, of human rights goals and individual and collective health status may be mediated by the experience of dignity [12]. The research upon which this paper is based follows his call for work aimed at developing a taxonomy (page number not for citation purposes)
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