One or Two: An Examination of the Recent Case of the Conjoined Twins from Malta  

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Barilan, Y. Michael

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy vol. 28 no. 1 (Feb. 2003), page 27-44.
Topik: abortion; Cloning; Conjoined Twins; Human Body; Human Persons; Multiple Personality Disorder; Split Brain
Fulltext: MM80V28N1P27.pdf (102.86KB)

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: MM80.13 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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The article questions the assumption that conjoined twins are necessarily two people or persons by employing arguments based on different points of view: non-personal vitalism, the person as a sentient being, the person as an agent, the person as a locus of narrative and valuation, and the person as an embodied mind. Analogies employed from the cases of amputation, multiple personality disorder, abortion, split-brain patients and cloning. The article further questions the assumption that a conjoined twin's natural interest and wish is separation. I first contend that separation is such a radical procedure as to render the post-separation person different from the pre-separation one. Therefore, it is not possible to benefit the pre-separation twin by the act of separation. The article concludes with a critical evaluation of the tendency in bioethics to regard ethical challenges as rivalry between individuals competing for scarce resources.

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