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Medical science concerns humans, a human. But what is this human; what is this person? Today the progress made in biological research provides us with two definitions of personhood.
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Bernard, J. (1999). The Person. In: Personhood and Health Care. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2572-9_5
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