"Personhood" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
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.
| Descriptor ID |
D028723
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| MeSH Number(s) |
K01.752.566.479.660 N05.350.917
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Personhood" by people in Profiles.
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No Country for Old Laws: Why the Effort to Revise the UDDA Reveals the Social Weakness of Medicine in the US. Am J Bioeth. 2024 Jan; 24(1):108-110.
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The End of Personhood. Am J Bioeth. 2024 Jan; 24(1):3-12.
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Why appeals to the moral significance of birth are saddled with a dilemma. J Med Ethics. 2022 07; 48(7):490-491.
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Preserving the Person in Contemporary Psychiatry. Psychiatr Clin North Am. 2018 06; 41(2):183-191.
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Is There a Right to the Death of the Foetus? Bioethics. 2017 05; 31(4):313-320.
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Professional responsibility to and for patients and the ethics of health policy. Am J Bioeth. 2013; 13(8):16-8.
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An ethically justified framework for clinical investigation to benefit pregnant and fetal patients. Am J Bioeth. 2011 May; 11(5):39-49.
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A critical analysis of the concept and discourse of 'unborn child'. Am J Bioeth. 2008 Jul; 8(7):34-9.
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Balancing the personal and the professional: should and can we teach this? Acad Psychiatry. 2007 Mar-Apr; 31(2):129-32.
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The fetus as a patient: an essential concept for the ethics of perinatal medicine. Am J Perinatol. 2003 Nov; 20(8):399-404.