Granting personhood to cognitively complex sentient beings who share 99% of our DNA is a big ask of the court.
Before the government was peering through our webcams, tracking our steps through GPS, feeling every keystroke we typed and listening and watching as we built up complex datasets of our entire personhood online, there was still rudimentary data to be collected.
In the end, it is two or more vulnerable strangers alone in a room who must learn, with little mediation or supervision, to respect each other's privacy, property, and personhood or face a complex system of consequences.
However, particular to most African settings, the process of giving informed consent is rendered more complex, given different cultural conceptions of personhood.
By diving deep into the issues related to miscegenation -- the mixing of different racial groups through marriage and parenthood -- in Brazil, she offers up a complex retelling of colonialism's effect on personhood, the lasting effects of assimilation, and the darker spirit of coexistence.
It is often argued that the concepts of personhood and person-centeredness are complex to translate into clinical practice [ 10].
This allowed for a more systematic analysis in order to gain a deeper understanding of the complex nature of caring relationships and how they influenced personhood.
His book considers their lives in terms of a complex range of forces and helps us comprehend the linkages between culture, illness, personhood, and political agency on the margins of contemporary American society.
At this complex juncture in the history of claiming, granting, and defining human rights, we will consider issues of personhood, identity, representation, and action.
Understanding the complex nature and quality of these relationships added insight as to how they influenced the provision of care and the personhood of persons with dementia.
