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Consciousness and Personhood in Medical Care

Frontiers 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, Eric Racine, George A. Mashour   +2 more
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Individualism in African Moral Cultures [PDF]

, 2017
This article repudiates the dichotomy that African ethics is communitarian (relational) and Western ethics is individualistic. ‘Communitarianism’ is the view that morality is ultimately grounded on some relational properties like love or friendship; and,
Molefe, Motsamai
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A Prospective Study of Individuals at Risk of Multiple Sclerosis Informs the Design of Primary Prevention Studies

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective In multiple sclerosis, the optimal time for deploying a therapeutic intervention is before the central nervous system is damaged; given the success of trials treating the earliest stage of MS, the radiologically isolated syndrome, developing primary prevention strategies is an important next challenge.
Amy W. Laitinen, Ceren Tozlu, Tina Roostaei, Fatoumata Diallo, Kaho Onomichi, Jiyeon Son, Zongqi Xia, Philip L. De Jager   +7 more
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Husserl and the layers of human development

Psicopatologia 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
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Animals, Slaves, and Corporations: Analyzing Legal Thinghood [PDF]

, 2017
The Article analyzes the notion of legal “thinghood” in the context of the person–thing bifurcation. In legal scholarship, there are numerous assumptions pertaining to this definition that are often not spelled out.
Kurki, Visa A. J.
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Multiple Sclerosis Relapse Activity After Ozanimod Discontinuation in DAYBREAK Trial Participants

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
Multiple Sclerosis Relapse Activity After Ozanimod Discontinuation in DAYBREAK Trial Participants. ABSTRACT Objective Return of disease activity is expected when patients discontinue disease‐modifying therapy (DMT) for multiple sclerosis (MS). Some MS DMTs are associated with higher‐than‐expected disease activity (rebound) after discontinuation.
Ralf Gold, Krzysztof W. Selmaj, Regina Berkovich, Jeffrey A. Cohen, Giancarlo Comi, Eva K. Havrdová, James K. Sheffield, Hetal Desai, Chun‐Yen Cheng, Jon V. Riolo, Andrew Thorpe, Erik DeBoer, Bruce A. C. Cree   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can we reconcile individualisation with relational ‘personhood: a case study from the Early Neolithic

Documenta Praehistorica, 2011
In this article, we seek to discuss the tension between relational personhood, characterised by ‘dividuals’, and the individualisation of persons whose driving force was the creation of new embodied skills learnt to perform the wide range of new tasks ...
Chapman John, Gaydarska Bisserka
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An African perspective on the partiality and impartiality debate: Insights from Kwasi Wiredu's moral philosophy [PDF]

, 2017
In this article, I attempt to bridge the gap between partiality and impartiality in moral philosophy from an oft-neglected African perspective. I draw a solution for this moral-theoretical impasse between partialists and impartialists from Kwasi Wiredu's,
Molefe, Motsamai
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IV Thrombolysis Facilitates Interventional Reperfusion in Non‐Cardioembolic but Not Cardioembolic Stroke

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) before thrombectomy for ischemic stroke may alter clot structure and procedural performance. We investigated how IVT relates to thrombectomy metrics across stroke etiologies. Methods We performed a time‐to‐event analysis of consecutive patients with anterior circulation large vessel occlusion (acLVO ...
Annahita Sedghi, Daniel P. O. Kaiser, Martin Arndt, Norma J. Diel, Erik Simon, Witold H. Polanski, Volker Puetz, Hagen B. Huttner, Timo Siepmann   +8 more
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Towards an approach to development as missionary role: the category of personhood as addressed by Amartya Sen?

Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology, 2014
This paper is concerned with the role of personhood in development. I will be looking at the extent to which the influential model of development proposed by Amartya Sen does justice to the category of personhood.
Klaasen, John
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