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Why a handbook on human dignity?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2015

Edited by
Marcus Düwell ,
Jens Braarvig ,
Roger Brownsword  and
Dietmar Mieth
Marcus Düwell
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Jens Braarvig
Affiliation:
Universitetet i Oslo
Roger Brownsword
Affiliation:
King's College London
Dietmar Mieth
Affiliation:
Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany
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The Cambridge Handbook of Human Dignity
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
 , pp. xvii - xxii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2014

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