{"id":50090,"date":"2021-08-04T19:18:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T19:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moraeslab.com\/biapt\/?p=50090"},"modified":"2021-08-12T17:56:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T17:56:01","slug":"consciousness-and-personhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moraeslab.com\/biapt\/consciousness-and-personhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Consciousness and Personhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Photo credit: Naomi Silver-V\u00e9zina<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The BIAPT lab is interested in exploring the relationship between consciousness and personhood.\u00a0 The concepts of person and personhood play pivotal roles in Western medical care and clinical ethics.\u00a0 The claim to personhood has long been considered to be threshold-setting such that, when someone is considered a person, a number of entitlements and obligations follow that are not attributable to non-persons.\u00a0 Individuals who exist with little to no responsiveness trouble our notions of consciousness, responsiveness and personhood, as well as their ethical implications.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have explored the relationship between consciousness and personhood in medical settings.\u00a0 Drawing from different clinical situations (disorders of consciousness, emergence from anesthesia, neocortical death), we have exemplified the different modes in which personhood and consciousness can be associated and disassociated.\u00a0 Based on these examples, we call for a reflection on and possible revision of the dominant approaches towards unresponsive persons to one in which care provides may work from the default assumption of the existence of an individual\u2019s personhood as part of their therapeutic intervention.\u00a0 The full paper was published in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frontiers in Human Neuroscience<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fnhum.2018.00306\/full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consciousness and Personhood in Medical Care<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are also exploring the perceptions of consciousness and personhood in minimally communicative individuals whose caregivers are co-designers of our biomusic technology.\u00a0 Using ethnographic fieldnotes and interviews with caregivers around their perceptions of the non-communicative individual, our work focuses on the relational elements of personhood that are situated, temporal and contextual.\u00a0 This work is being conducted in partnership with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lauraspeckersullivan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Laura Specker Sullivan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at Fordham University.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo credit: Naomi Silver-V\u00e9zina The BIAPT lab is interested in exploring the relationship between consciousness and personhood.\u00a0 The concepts of person and personhood play pivotal roles in Western medical care and clinical ethics.\u00a0 The claim to personhood has long been considered to be threshold-setting such that, when someone is considered a person, a number of 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