One or two: An examination of the recent case of the conjoined twins from malta

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 27-44

  Barilan, Y Michael ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Abortion; Cloning; Conjoined twins; Human body; Human person; Multiple personality disorder; Split brain

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; AMPUTATION; CONJOINED TWINS; ETHICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CLONING; INDIVIDUALITY; MALTA; MULTIPLE PERSONALITY; PHILOSOPHY; REVIEW; SPLIT BRAIN;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH;

ABORTION, INDUCED; BRAIN; CLONING, ORGANISM; CONSCIOUSNESS; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; ISRAEL; MALTA; MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONHOOD; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; TWINS, CONJOINED;

EID: 0037307211     PISSN: 03605310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/jmep.28.1.27.14176     Document Type: Review

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