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  1. Leon Kass, “The Wisdom of Repugnance: Why We Should Ban the Cloning of Humans,” New Republic vol. 216 (1997), p. 20.

  2. See Martha Nussbaum, Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004); see also Martha Nussbaum, From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).

  3. See Nussbaum, Hiding from Humanity, p. 321.

  4. See John Deigh, “The Politics of Disgust and Shame,” Journal of Ethics vol. 10 (2006).

  5. See Martha Nussbaum, The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994), ch. 9.

  6. See Martha Nussbaum, Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2000); see also Martha Nussbaum, Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006).

  7. See Nussbaum, Women and Human Development, ch. 1; see also Nussbaum, Frontiers of Justice, chs. 2–3.

  8. See Nussbaum, Women and Human Development, ch. 1; see also Nussbaum, Frontiers of Justice, ch. 3.

  9. Ibid.

  10. See Nussbaum, Frontiers of Justice, ch. 3.

  11. See Nussbaum, Women and Development, ch. 1.

  12. See Nussbaum, Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001), p. 1.

  13. See ibid.

  14. See Paul Rozin and April E. Fallon, “A Perspective on Disgust,” Psychological Review vol. 94 (1987); see also Paul Rozin, Jonathan Haidt, Clark McCauley, “Disgust: The Body and Soul Emotion,” in T. Dalgleish and M. Power, eds., Handbook of Cognition and Emotion (Chichester, Englad: John Wiley, 1999); and Paul Rozin, Jonathan Haidt, Clark R. McCauley, “Disgust,” in M. Lewis and J. Haviland, eds., Handbook of Emotions 3rd ed (New York: Guilford, 2008).

  15. William I. Miller, The Anatomy of Disgust (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997), p. 50.

  16. See Rozin, Haidt, and McCauley, “Disgust.”

  17. See ibid.

  18. Nussbaum, Hiding from Humanity, p. 88.

  19. See ibid., p. 92.

  20. See ibid., p. 14.

  21. Jonathan Haidt, Paul Rozin, Clark McCauley, and Sumio Imada, “Body, Psyche, and Culture: The Relationship between Disgust and Morality,” Psychology and Developing Societies, Vol. 9 (1997), p. 121; see also, Jonathan Haidt, “The Moral Emotions,” in R. J. Davidson, K. R. Scherer, & H. H. Goldsmith, eds., Handbook of affective sciences (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

  22. See Aurel Kolnai, On Disgust, B. Smith and C. Korsmeyer, eds. (Chicago: Open Court, 2004).

  23. See Patrick Devlin, The Enforcement of Morals (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).

  24. See William Miller, op. cit.; Dan Kahan, “The Progressive Appropriation of Disgust,” in Susan Bandes ed., The Passions of Law (New York and London: New York University Press, 1999), pp. 63–79.

  25. See John Kekes, “Disgust and Moral Taboos,” Philosophy vol. 67 (1992).

  26. See Kass, op. cit.

  27. See Nussbaum, Hiding from Humanity, p. 102.

  28. See ibid., pp 107–115.

  29. See Nussbaum, Upheavals, p. 221.

  30. See Nussbaum, Hiding from Humanity, p. 18.

  31. See ibid., p. 117.

  32. See ibid., p. 166.

  33. Ibid., p. 165.

  34. See ibid.

  35. See Nussbaum, Women and Human Development.

  36. See ibid.

  37. See ibid.; see also Nussbaum, Frontiers of Justice.

  38. See Martha Nussbaum, “Human Dignity and Political Entitlements” in Human Dignity and Bioethics: Essays Commissioned by the President’s Council on Bioethics (Washington D.C.: President’s Council on Bioethics 2008), p. 359.

  39. See Nussbaum, From Disgust to Humanity, p. 51.

  40. Nussbaum, Women and Human Development, p. 72.

  41. We would like to thank Craig Hanks, Carolyn Korsmeyer, and Victoria Costa for helpful comments on earlier versions of this article. We would also like to thank the four anonymous referees and Thomas Magnell, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Value Inquiry, for their helpful comments and suggestions. We are also grateful to the National Science Foundation, Ethics, Technology, and Society program, award number SES-0723809 for funding to IdMM and to the Argentinean Agency for the Promotion of Scientific Research for support to AS.

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    Inmaculada de Melo-Martín

  2. Centro de Investigaciones Filosóficas (CIF), O’Higgins 1547, 2B, 1426, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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de Melo-Martín, I., Salles, A. On Disgust and Human Dignity. J Value Inquiry 45, 159–168 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-011-9275-z

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