AIM Human dignity as an important consideration in health care has been primarily investigated from an adult perspective. This paper explores young people's perceptions of dignity and how it impacts on their health-care experience. METHOD A qualitative pilot study was undertaken at the Children's Hospital, Westmead in from 2010 to 2011. Semistructured interviews were conducted with five inpat...

8 “Life Begins When they Steal your Bicycle”: Cross-Cultural Practices of Personhood at the Beginnings and Ends of Life Lynn M. Morgan This paper examines two reasons anthropological expertise has recently come to be considered relevant to American debates about the beginnings and ends of life. First, bioethicists and clinicians working to accommodate diverse perspectives into clinical decision...

One strategy for arguing that it should be legally permissible to create human embryos, or to use spare human embryos, for scientific research purposes involves the claim that such embryos cannot be persons because they are not human individuals while twinning may yet take place. Being a human individual is considered to be by most people a necessary condition for being a human person. I argue ...