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BMC International Health and Human Rights BioMed Central Research article Open Access A taxonomy of dignity: a grounded theory study Nora Jacobson1,2 Address: 1Health Systems Research and Consulting Unit, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada and 2Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Email: Nora Jacobson - nora_jacobson@ Published: 24 February 2009 Received: 28 October 2008 Accepted: 24 February 2009 BMC International Health and Human Rights 2009, 9:3 doi:10.1186/1472-698X-9-3 This article is available from: /1472-698X/9/3 © 2009 Jacobson; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: This paper has its origins in Jonathan Manns insight that the experience of dignity may explain the reciprocal relationships between health and human rights. It follows his call for a taxonomy of dignity: a coherent vocabulary and framework to characterize dignity. Methods: Grounded theory procedures were use to analyze literature pertaining to dignity and to conduct and analyze 64 semi-structured interviews with persons marginalized by their health or social status, individuals who provide health or social services to these populations, and people working in the field of h