Argument about the ethical possibility of the therapeutic use of embryonic stem cells depends critically on the evaluation of the moral status of the very early embryo. Some assert that at the blastocyst stage it is only potentially human, not yet possessing the full ethical status of personhood, while others assert that from its formation the embryo possesses all the moral rights of a human pe...

This book is about persons. Given what most of us think about when we hear the word “psychology,” it is surprising that so much disciplinary psychology over the past 100 to 150 years has had relatively little to say about persons and their lives. Fortunately, this state of affairs has begun to change very rapidly. The purpose of this book is to introduce the seemingly new, yet in some ways long...

Convergent lines of evidence indicate that anthropomorphic robots are represented using neurocognitive mechanisms typically employed in social reasoning about other people. Relatedly, a growing literature documents that contexts of threat can exacerbate coalitional biases in social perceptions. Integrating these research programs, the present studies test whether cues of violent intergroup conf...

• Personhood is critical for understanding how informal mobility embedded in cities. Boda boda stages embody and reproduce a distinctive mode of personhood. Drivers navigate between multiple spatial institutions forms Digital platforms rely on supplement existing spatial-moral practices. State efforts to govern bodas fail if they don’t recognize drivers’ institutions.

While it is increasingly possible to envision "perfect" babies, it is not always the case that reproduction actually proceeds according to individual will; for example, there has been no recent reduction in rates of childhood disability. Nevertheless, in most studies of new reproductive technologies, the birth of those children whom few would actively choose-"defective" or disabled infants-is p...

Purpose: This paper aimed to clarify the meaning of personhood communication with persons dementia, by identifying its attributes.Methods: Walker and Avant’s concept analysis method was employed. A literature review performed using salient medical health databases such as PubMed, Embase, CINAHL between 1988 June 2020. The employed keywords “personhood”, “communication”, “dementia”.Results: Pers...

Background: Person-centred care has been identified as the ideal approach to caring for people with dementia. Developed in relation to long stay settings, there are challenges to its implementation in acute settings. However, international policy indicates that acute care for people with dementia should be informed by the principles of person-centred care and interventions should be designed to...

Abstract This paper’s central task is to demonstrate how the African concept of personhood provides a suitable grounding for an authentic philosophy education. An education one in which there constant search underlying principles reflecting on foundation, nature, and justification need desirability Africa. Scholars have drawn diverse implications from personhood, especially areas normative ethi...