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Book SynopsisIn 21st century America, personhood is under daily assault, sometimes with dire consequences. Scientist, ethicist, and ordained minister Craig C. Malbon encourages the reader to consider such assaults on personhood endured by victims of abortion, ageism, Alzheimer's disease, drug addiction, mental and physical disabilities, gender, gender orientation, racism, sexual preference, identity politics, and our will-to-power over the other. In exploring personhood status, Malbon poses difficult questions for us. Is personhood assigned as all-or-nothing, or is it a sliding scale based upon criteria arbitrarily aimed at our vulnerabilities? Does the voiceless embryo and fetus have advocates who can speak to the moral question of abortion? Is the personhood of an economically insecure pregnant woman degraded to the point where lack of access to early termination of pregnancy results in coercive childbearing? Does being a member of the LGBTQI+ community target one for assaults on pe
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. On Being Human & Attaining Personhood
2. Personhood with Vulnerabilities in Soma (Body)
3. Personhood with Vulnerabilities of Psyche (Mind)
4. Special Challenges to Personhood in the 21st C America
5. America’s Two Great “Original Sins”
6. Understanding Those Who Attack the Being of the “Other”
7. Prescriptions (Rx): Hard Truths, Contrition & Metanoia
Epilogue
About the Author
