personhood

/pur-suhn-hood/US // ˈpɜr sənˌhʊd //UK // (ˈp£ːsənˌhʊd) //

个人身份,人格,人身,人的身份

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : the state or fact of being a person.
- : the state or fact of being an individual or having human characteristics and feelings: a harsh prison system that deprives prisoners of their personhood.

Examples

In addition to the torment she experiences at the hands of her sadistic owners and other slaves in higher social standing than her, her mother’s abandonment has left a festering wound that’s diminished her sense of personhood.
The way we’re responding to people, their personhood and their dignity, that’s the issue, not the amount of people.
In doing so, it privileges biological conceptions of personhood over other more holistic notions of a human life.
Paid sick leave, personhood, you name it, all of them went in the progressive direction, most of them by overwhelmingly margins.
By a margin of 63 percent to 37 percent, Colorado voters rejected the “personhood” measure.
In Colorado, voters will decide whether to support a controversial “personhood” amendment to the state constitution.
He believes brain chemistry undermines his sense of free will and personhood and that psychology explains away love and altruism.
Charles Siebert, The New York Times Magazine Steven Wise is arguing for the legal “personhood” of chimps and other animals.
As a process, personhood acknowledges the person as having continuous potential for further tapping the current of caring.
This personal knowing enables the nurse to respond to the unique call for nurturing personhood.
And it is in the nursing situation that the nurse attends to calls for caring, creating caring responses that nurture personhood.
Further, the experience of the caring within the nursing situation enhances personhood, the process of living grounded in caring.
The caring between the nurse and the ones nursed enhanced the personhood of all three, as each grew in caring ways.

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Examples

In addition to the torment she experiences at the hands of her sadistic owners and other slaves in higher social standing than her, her mother’s abandonment has left a festering wound that’s diminished her sense of personhood.

The way we’re responding to people, their personhood and their dignity, that’s the issue, not the amount of people.

In doing so, it privileges biological conceptions of personhood over other more holistic notions of a human life.

Paid sick leave, personhood, you name it, all of them went in the progressive direction, most of them by overwhelmingly margins.

By a margin of 63 percent to 37 percent, Colorado voters rejected the “personhood” measure.

In Colorado, voters will decide whether to support a controversial “personhood” amendment to the state constitution.

He believes brain chemistry undermines his sense of free will and personhood and that psychology explains away love and altruism.

Charles Siebert, The New York Times Magazine Steven Wise is arguing for the legal “personhood” of chimps and other animals.

As a process, personhood acknowledges the person as having continuous potential for further tapping the current of caring.

This personal knowing enables the nurse to respond to the unique call for nurturing personhood.

And it is in the nursing situation that the nurse attends to calls for caring, creating caring responses that nurture personhood.

Further, the experience of the caring within the nursing situation enhances personhood, the process of living grounded in caring.

The caring between the nurse and the ones nursed enhanced the personhood of all three, as each grew in caring ways.