Abstract This essay explores the secular imaginary of contemporary elegy, with a focus on writers in U.S. Comparing recent poems by Natasha Trethewey, Danez Smith, Sam Sax, primarily, I examine variations figure apostrophe addressed to dead as imaginative critiques hope. These poets use precarious forms explore conceptual impasse posthumous personhood social world. Their writing disperses this ...

The fear that business corporations have claimed unwarranted constitutional protections which entrenched corporate power has produced a broad social movement demanding rights be restricted to human beings and personhood abolished. We develop critique of these proposals organized around the three salient rationales we identify in accompanying narrative, argue reflect narrow focus on large corpor...

Allocortical structures such as hippocampal formation and amygdala are involved in the emotions and memory, and regarded as the seat of personhood. Human body is a composite of a biological organism and an intellective soul. It was suggested that cerebral allocortex is the main region harboring the soul and the beginning of a human person as an individual living organism is at the 13 week of de...

This case was the first of its kind to address questions of personhood [5] in the context of in vitro [6] fertilization [7] of a human embryo. It laid a foundation for future cases to work from: specifically, this case established the importance of prior written agreements for disposition of frozen embryos. This was also the first court decision to borrow the word ?pre-embryo? from bioethics to...

Firing another salvo in the on-going monism-dualism debate, Joel B. Green in his new book Body, Soul, and Human Life, presents his ontological monism, a rebuttal against anthropological dualism in general and against the holistic dualism in Body, Soul, and Everlasting Life by John W. Cooper in particular. Green’s anthropological monism, which “coheres well with Nancey Murphy’s argument . . . an...

Among Maithil women there is an understanding of the relation between a mother's milk and the health of her child. Their understanding is supported by the Ayurvedic tradition. Characteristic is the way in which breast-feeding condenses so many meanings--nutritional, medical and moral--into one act. The mother not only nurses her child but also forms his character, fulfills her own personhood an...

This case was the first of its kind to address questions of personhood [5] in the context of in vitro [6] fertilization [7] of a human embryo. It laid a foundation for future cases to work from: specifically, this case established the importance of prior written agreements for disposition of frozen embryos. This was also the first court decision to borrow the word ?pre-embryo? from bioethics to...

Advanced dementia is a terminal condition; however, research has revealed that affected individuals are subjected to multiple intrusive and burdensome interventions. Individuals with advance dementia require palliative care long before their death. This article reviews selected approaches that support personhood, explain behavior management principles, assure meaningful connections for activiti...