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Medicine and dignity

Richard Tully Edinburgh   Sorrowing Old Man (At Eternity’s Gate) Vincent van Gogh Oil on canvas Kröller-Müller Museum “The dignity of the human being” is a fairly commonplace phrase in various contexts. It is used often in pleas against, say, the dehumanizing conditions of slum culture, or in protests by Amnesty International against vicious prison […]