Lockwood on human identity and the primitive streak

Journal of Medical Ethics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 38-41

  Howsepian, A A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryology; Human experimentation; Identity; Twinning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYOLOGY; HUMAN; IDENTITY; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORALITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; RESEARCH; TWIN PREGNANCY;

EID: 0031042426     PISSN: 03066800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jme.23.1.38     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Lockwood M. Human identity and the primitive streak. Hastings Center Report 1995; 25,1: 45.
2. Department of Health and Social Security. Report of the Committe of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology. London: HMSO, 1984: Cmnd 9314: para 11.22.
3. McCormick RA. Who or what is the preembryo? Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 1991; 1: 1-15.
4. van Inwagen P. Material beings. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.
5. These analogies are presented in the form of questions: (a) "By analogy, would the house in which you now live have existed had there been built, on the site of your house, a qualitatively identical one made out of different bricks, different planks of wood, and so forth?" (b) "Analogously, would the house in which you now live have existed if a qualitatively identical one had been built, on the same site, out of the same bricks, wood, and so on, but, in completely different places?"
6. Howsepian AA. Who or what are we?. Review of Metaphysics 1992; 45: 483-502.
7. Stated by Mary Warnock in a television interview and quoted in Lockwood, reference 1.
8. See, for example, the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research. Defining death: medical, legal and ethical issues in the definition of death. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1981.
9. This minority includes, among others, Veatch RM. The impending collapse of the whole-brain definition of death. Hastings Center Report 1993; 23,4:18-24, and Lizza JP. Persons and death: what's metaphysically wrong with our current statutory definition of death?" Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 1993; 18: 351-74.
10. This minority includes, among others, Veatch RM. The impending collapse of the whole-brain definition of death. Hastings Center Report 1993; 23,4:18-24, and Lizza JP. Persons and death: what's metaphysically wrong with our current statutory definition of death?" Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 1993; 18: 351-74.