Human dignity as empowerment -- Human dignity and the new bioethics: human dignity as constraint -- Dignity, human dignity, and dignified conduct -- The principle of generic consistency and its justification -- Kant and Gerwith -- Dignity, rights, and virtue under the principle of generic consistency -- Being born with dignity: selecting the genetic characteristics of offspring -- Living with dignity I: ownership and commodification of human body parts -- Living with dignity II: patents and contracts -- Living with dignity III: prolonging life, denying death, and cosmetic augmentation -- Dying with dignity