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Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation > Ethics > Personhood
Humanities > Philosophy > Morals > Ethics > Personhood
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Psychology, Social > Morals > Ethics > Personhood
... > Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Psychology > Psychology, Social > Morals > Ethics > Personhood

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Personhood  

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Definition

  • 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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