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Preface and Acknowledgements.- 1. Vulnerability and Human Dignity in the Age of Rights; Aniceto Masferrer and Emilio García-Sánchez.- PART I: Human Dignity of the Vulnerable: Ethical and Anthropological Perspectives.- 2. Vulnerability as a Part of Human Nature; Alfredo Marcos.- 3. Ethics of Vulnerability; Adela Cortina and Jesús Conill.- 4. Vulnerable: To be between life and death; Aquilino Cayuela.- 5. The Vulnerability of Life in the Philosophy of Hans Jonas; Paolo Becchi and oberto Franzini Tibaldeo.- PART II: Human Dignity of the Vulnerable: Biomedical and Sociological Perspectives.- 6. Biotechnologies inside the self: new challenges in clinical ontology; Luis Echarte.- 7. Paradoxes of authenticity: a neuroscientific approach to personal identity; Luis Echarte.- 8. Vulnerability at the end of life: A medical perspective; Joaquim Bosch and oan Vidal.- 9. Cosmetic Vulnerability. The new face of human fragility; Emilio García-Sánchez.- PART III: Human Dignity of the Vulnerable in the Age of Rights: Historical, Legal Philosophical and Political Perspectives.- 10. Taking Human Dignity more Humanely A Historical Contribution to the Ethical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy; Aniceto Masferrer.- 11. Is vulnerability the foundation of human rights?; Roberto Andorno.- 12. The final fragility of the human being and the ‘right’ to die: biojuridical considerations; Claudio Sartea.- 13. Taking Vulnerability Seriously: What Does It Change for Bioethics and Politics?; Corine Pelluchon.- 14. The principle of respect for human vulnerability and assisted reproductive technologies; Vicente Bellver.