Personhood

"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.

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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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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Personhood" by people in this website by year, and whether "Personhood" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 4 publications over 3 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2006
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