 Personhood
"Personhood" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The state or condition of being a human individual accorded moral and/or legal rights. Criteria to be used to determine this status are subject to debate, and range from the requirement of simply being a human organism to such requirements as that the individual be self-aware and capable of rational thought and moral agency.
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D028723
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| MeSH Number(s) |
K01.316.722 K01.752.256.660
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Personhood" by people in this website by year, and whether "Personhood" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1989 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1994 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2002 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2013 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2017 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Personhood" by people in Profiles.
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Frush BW, Eberly JB, Curlin FA. What Should Physicians and Chaplains Do When a Patient Believes God Wants Him to Suffer? AMA J Ethics. 2018 Jul 01; 20(7):E613-620.
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Padela AI, Qureshi O. Islamic perspectives on clinical intervention near the end-of-life: We can but must we? Med Health Care Philos. 2017 Dec; 20(4):545-559.
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Sulmasy DP. Death and dignity in Catholic Christian thought. Med Health Care Philos. 2017 Dec; 20(4):537-543.
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Friedman SR, Pouget ER, Sandoval M, Rossi D, Mateu-Gelabert P, Nikolopoulos GK, Schneider JA, Smyrnov P, Stall RD. Interpersonal Attacks on the Dignity of Members of HIV Key Populations: A Descriptive and Exploratory Study. AIDS Behav. 2017 Sep; 21(9):2561-2578.
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Padela AI, Malik AY, Curlin F, De Vries R. [Re]considering Respect for Persons in a Globalizing World. Dev World Bioeth. 2015 Aug; 15(2):98-106.
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Sulmasy DP. The varieties of human dignity: a logical and conceptual analysis. Med Health Care Philos. 2013 Nov; 16(4):937-44.
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Williams BR, Blizard TI, Goode PS, Harada CN, Woodby LL, Burgio KL, Sims RV. Exploring the affective dimension of the life review process: Facilitators' interactional strategies for fostering personhood and social value among older adults with early dementia. Dementia (London). 2014 Jul; 13(4):498-524.
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Ross LF. What is wrong with the Physician Charter on Professionalism. Hastings Cent Rep. 2006 Jul-Aug; 36(4):17-9.
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Mahowald MB, Mahowald AP. Embryonic stem cell retrieval and a possible ethical bypass. Am J Bioeth. 2002; 2(1):42-3.
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Sulmasy DP. Death, dignity, and the theory of value. Ethical Perspect. 2002; 9(2-3):103-18.
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