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[Medical ethics questions: When is an organism a person?].

Dr. Seidal takes Dr. Hermeren to task for the latters statement that a distinction can be made between a human as a biological species (homo sapiens) and as a person. This point of view Seidal states that someone who has suffered for example a total brain infarct could only be described as a human body. Just as our sense of ethics does not support an expansion of the concept of death to include a person who is still living but may not be conscious so also we should not exclude the fertilized human egg from the definition of a person. To base a definition of humanity on function leads to a purely utilitarian viewpoint which is incompatible with the ethics of care which form an important component of traditional medical ethics.