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ENVIRONMENTAL PERSONHOOD REIMAGINED: A CONCISE PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW

open access: yesMimbar Hukum
This paper is built upon one question: can the natural world be recognised as a ‘member’ of a legal community? By exploring the nature of legal personhood, this paper revisits the concept of environmental personhood.
Muhammad Pasha Nur Fauzan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Degeneration of the Human Mind: An Analysis of Alzheimer’s Disease, A Kuhnian Perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In 1906, a German physician, Dr. Alois Alzheimer, specifically identified a collection of brain cell abnormalities (and the formation of plaque in the brain) as a disease, which forever changed the way scientists view degenerative cognitive disorders ...
Ilg, Genevieve
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Hospital Readmission After Traumatic Brain Injury Hospitalization in Community‐Dwelling Older Adults

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To examine the risk of hospital readmission after an index hospitalization for TBI in older adults. Methods Using data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study, we used propensity score matching of individuals with an index TBI‐related hospitalization to individuals with (1) non‐TBI hospitalizations (primary analysis)
Rachel Thomas   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

NATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF PERSONHOOD AMONG OLDER PEOPLE IN POLAND

open access: yesEtnografia Polska, 2014
Older people in Poland are often discriminated against in both practice and imagination, thus threatening their very status as moral persons.
Jessica C. ROBBINS-RUSZKOWSKI
doaj  

Husserl and the layers of human development

open access: yesPsicopatologia Fenomenológica Contemporânea
The aim is to reconstruct Husserl's main conceptual contributions to the theme of subjective development. It investigates the notion of personhood in a broad and strict sense and recognizes how an instinctive-affective base is active, on which a layer ...
Marcus Sacrini
doaj   +1 more source

Consciousness and Personhood in Medical Care

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2018
Current paradigms in Western medicine often fail to differentiate clearly between consciousness, responsiveness and personhood. The growing number of individuals who exist with sustainable cardiopulmonary systems but who are behaviorally unresponsive has
Stefanie Blain-Moraes   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Relational Identities and Other-Than-Human Agency in Archaeology

open access: yes, 2018
Relational Identities and Other-than-Human Agency in Archaeology explores the benefits and consequences of archaeological theorizing on and interpretation of the social agency of nonhumans as relational beings capable of producing change in the world ...
Harrison-Buck, Eleanor, Hendon, Julia A.
core  

Functional Connectivity Linked to Cognitive Recovery After Minor Stroke

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Patients with minor stroke exhibit slowed processing speed and generalized alterations in functional connectivity involving frontoparietal cortex (FPC). The pattern of connectivity evolves over time. In this study, we examine the relationship of functional connectivity patterns to cognitive performance, to determine ...
Vrishab Commuri   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Autonomy and its relevance for the construction of personhood in dementia– a thematic synthesis

open access: yesBMC Geriatrics
Background This article examines the concept of autonomy in the context of person-centred dementia research and care, which is frequently being used but not clearly defined.
Jonathan Serbser-Koal   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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