Bodiliness and Human Dignity

In every culture, ideas and practices concerning the human body reflect what people think about the human person and his/her dignity. Contemporary cultural and medical-technical developments pose new questions to traditional attitudes to bodiliness. How can these questions be addressed from the perspective of intercultural ethics, in particular with regard to organ donation? "Harm Goris" is assistant professor of systematic theology at the Catholic Theological University at Utrecht (the Netherlands).