How Long to Read Defining Personhood

How Long Does it Take to Read Defining Personhood?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 5 minutes to read Defining Personhood by Sarah Bishop Merrill

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Many debates in biomedical ethics today involve inconsistencies in defining the key term, person. Both sides of the abortion debate, for instance, beg the question about what constitutes personhood. This book explores the arguments concerning definitions of personhood in the history of modern philosophy, and then constructs a superior model, defined in terms of distinctive features (a theoretical concept borrowed from linguistics). This model is shown to have distinct advantages over the necessary and sufficient condition models of personhood launched by essentialists. Philosophers historically have been correct about what some of the pivotal distinctive features of personhood are, e.q., rationality, communications and self-consciousness, but they have been wrong about the methods of recognizing and asserting personhood, and about the relative importance of feelings. In clinical care, complaints often surface that care is not personal. This book aims to improve care through providing a method of attending to patients as people. Charts in the Appendices show that where physicians attended to personal features important to their patients, sometimes the patients rated the care even higher than the physician did. The book will be useful to health-care providers whose goals include improving quality of care, listening to patients, and preventing malpractice.

How long is Defining Personhood?

Defining Personhood by Sarah Bishop Merrill is 238 pages long, and a total of 61,404 words.

This makes it 80% the length of the average book. It also has 75% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Defining Personhood Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 35 minutes to read Defining Personhood aloud.

What Reading Level is Defining Personhood?

Defining Personhood is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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