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The Dignity Initiative
by Dignity Initiative
The Dignity Initiative interviews philosophers, anthropologists, neuroscientists, epidemiologists collaborating across multiple universities, as well as experts in international development and gender at UNICEF to examine the institutional, social, material and psychological contexts that enable the enactment and experience of dignity. This interdisciplinary research project responds to the recent imperatives to better understand the notion of dignity and the social contexts in which an individual's dignity can be actualized or painfully ruptured.
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Meet the Dignity Initiative
The Dignity Initiative began with the objective of arriving at a definition of dignity. We began by delving into the existing corpus of work that has been done to conceptualize dignity. By studying the various approaches from research in philosophy, sociology, law and bioethics, and drawing on…
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Dignity Meets Tom Wein
Director at IDinsight, Kenya Tom holds a Master’s degree in Communication for Development from Malmö University in Sweden, and an undergraduate degree in War Studies from King’s College, London. He is a director at IDinsight, based in Nairobi, Kenya. There he leads research in advocacy, and…
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Dignity Meets Pablo Gilabert
Department of Philosophy, Concordia University A native of Argentina, Pablo Gilabert is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Concordia University (Montréal, Canada). He has been an HLA Hart Fellow at the University of Oxford, a DAAD Fellow at the University of Frankfurt, a Visiting…
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Dignity Meets Jeffrey Snodgrass
Prof. Jeffrey G. Snodgrass is a Professor at the Department of Anthropology, an Adjunct Professor at the School of Public Health at Colorado State University, US. He is also the Director of Ethnographic Research and Teaching Lab in Ecology at the same university, which aims to add anthropological...
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Dignity Meets Remy Debes
Dignity Meets Remy Debes Prof. Debes is the Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. His published research is in the areas of Moral Theory and the History of Ethics, with an emphasis on Human Dignity, Respect, Metaethical Sentimentalism, Moral Psychology...
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Dignity Meets Jaswant Guzder
Division of Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University Dr. Guzder is the former Head of Child Psychiatry and Director of Childhood Disorders Day Hospital at the Jewish General Hospital, Founding Clinical Director of Cultural Consultation Services at the Jewish General Hospital, and Associate to...
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Dignity Meets Harvey Max Chochinov
Dr. Harvey Max Chochinov OC, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FRSC is a Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Manitoba and a Senior Scientist at CancerCare Manitoba Research Institute. He has led the research team that pioneered Dignity in Care and Dignity Therapy. He has more that 300 career...
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Dignity Meets Samuel Bickel
Samuel Bickel is a former Senior Advisor of Evaluation and Research at the UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) Region Office for South Asia, which is a leading global organization that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realized. There, he facilitated UNICEF to determine...
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Dignity Meets Sir Michael Marmot
Professor Sir Michael Marmot is a Professor of Epidemiology at University College London, UK, the director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity, UK, and a past President of the World Medical Association. Being a public health expert, he has conducted many groundbreaking studies on heart diseases...
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Dignity Meets Adam Etinson
Adam Etinson is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, where he is also Assistant Director of the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs (CEPPA). His articles have appeared in a wide range of academic journals, including The Australasian Journal of Philosophy,...
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Dignity Meets Suzanne Killmister
Prof. Suzy Killmister is a Regular Faculty at the Department of Philosophy at Monash University, Australia. Her area of specialization is social and political philosophy, specifically studies of gender, race, and sexuality. She is also interested in normative ethics, meta-ethics, and philosophy…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Dignity Initiative interviews philosophers, anthropologists, neuroscientists, epidemiologists collaborating across multiple universities, as well as experts in international development and gender at UNICEF to examine the institutional, social, material and psychological contexts that enable the enactment and experience of dignity. This interdisciplinary research project responds to the recent imperatives to better understand the notion of dignity and the social contexts in which an individual's dignity can be actualized or painfully ruptured.
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