A dualist analysis of abortion: Personhood and the concept of self qua experiential subject

Journal of Medical Ethics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 48-55

  Himma, Kenneth Einar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONCEPTION; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FETUS; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MORALITY; PERSONHOOD; RELIGION; SELF CONCEPT;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ABORTION, LEGAL; BEGINNING OF HUMAN LIFE; BRAIN; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETUS; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; MORAL DEVELOPMENT; PERSONHOOD; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; SELF CONCEPT; VALUE OF LIFE;

EID: 13444268034     PISSN: 03066800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jme.2002.000828     Document Type: Article

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