ONLY HUMAN: PERSONHOOD AND THE NEWLY CONCEIVED
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- abstract
- In this thesis I will consider four criteria for human personhood that many authors argue are not met by human embryos. These criteria are as follows: 1) being a human organism, 2) being an individual entity, 3) being an independent entity, and 4) being a conscious entity. In this thesis I endeavour to demonstrate that human embryos do in fact meet these criteria at least as well as many adult humans, and thus that human embryos cannot be denied human personhood on the grounds of these criteria.
- subject
- abortion
- embryo
- moral
- person
- personhood
- status
- contributor
- Moskop, John C (committee chair)
- Coughlin, Christine N (committee member)
- Kennedy, Ralph (committee member)
- date
- 2011-02-16T21:42:32Z (accessioned)
- 2011-02-16T21:42:32Z (available)
- 2010 (issued)
- degree
- Bioethics (discipline)
- identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10339/30421 (uri)
- language
- en (iso)
- publisher
- Wake Forest University
- title
- ONLY HUMAN: PERSONHOOD AND THE NEWLY CONCEIVED
- type
- Thesis