What does it mean to be a ‘person’? How do persons differ from other living things? Must all human beings be persons? Always? When does personhood start—during childhood, at birth, in the womb? Are you a person when asleep? Are people with severe mental deficiencies still persons? Severe brain injuries? What’s the importance of persons, anyway?
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Murali Doraiswamy is Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at Duke University and a leading physician scientist in the area of mental health, cognitive neuroscience and mind-body medicine.
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