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Many disciplines, besides ethics, have considered the rapport between bioethics and personhood. Historians and sociologists, for instance, have concluded that bioethics and the concept of personhood need each other.1 As a bioethicist I would like to ask an additional question — to what extent do personalist morals really meet the needs of bioethics?
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De Wachter, M.A.M. (2000). Is Personalism an Adequate Moral System for Bioethics?. In: Tymieniecka, AT., Zalewski, Z. (eds) Life the Human Being between Life and Death. Analecta Husserliana, vol 64. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2081-6_18
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