{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,2]],"date-time":"2026-07-02T07:15:41Z","timestamp":1782976541988,"version":"3.54.5"},"reference-count":16,"publisher":"BMJ","issue":"1","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["J Med Ethics"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2005,1]]},"abstract":"<jats:p>Ken Himma argues that a human being becomes a moral person at the commencement of brain activity. In response to Himma, the author offers (1) brief comments on Himma\u2019s project, (2) an alternative account of the human person that maintains that a human being is a human person by nature as long as it exists, and (3) a counterexample to Himma\u2019s position that shows it cannot account for the wrongness of the purposeful creation of anencephalic-like children. The author concludes with replies to two challenges to his position.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1136\/jme.2004.006650","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2005,1,5]],"date-time":"2005-01-05T17:17:52Z","timestamp":1104945472000},"page":"56-60","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Of souls, selves, and cerebrums: a reply to Himma"],"prefix":"10.1136","volume":"31","author":[{"given":"F J","family":"Beckwith","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"239","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2005,1,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"2024052223190861000_31.1.56.1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1136\/jme.2002.000828"},{"key":"2024052223190861000_31.1.56.2","unstructured":"Brody B . Abortion and the sanctity of human life. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1975."},{"key":"2024052223190861000_31.1.56.3","unstructured":"Lee P . Abortion & unborn human life. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 1996:82."},{"key":"2024052223190861000_31.1.56.4","unstructured":"Moreland JP, Rae SB. Body and soul: human nature and the crisis in ethics. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2000."},{"key":"2024052223190861000_31.1.56.5","unstructured":"Moreland JP. A defense of the substance dualist view of the soul. In: Moreland JP, Ciocchi DM, eds. Christian perspectives on being human: a multidisciplinary approach to integration. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1993:75\u00e2\u0080\u00939."},{"key":"2024052223190861000_31.1.56.6","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Bedau M . Cartesian interactionism. In: French PA, Uehling Jr TE, Westein HK, eds. Midwest studies in philosophy x: studies in the philosophy of mind. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986:483\u00e2\u0080\u0093502.","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1475-4975.1987.tb00552.x"},{"key":"2024052223190861000_31.1.56.7","unstructured":"Clarke, Norris W . Explorations in metaphysics. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 1994:105."},{"key":"2024052223190861000_31.1.56.8","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"95","DOI":"10.5840\/faithphil199512126","volume":"12","year":"1995","journal-title":"Faith Philos"},{"key":"2024052223190861000_31.1.56.9","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"97","DOI":"10.5840\/newscholas197852150","volume":"52","year":"1978","journal-title":"New Scholasticism"},{"key":"2024052223190861000_31.1.56.10","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/1467-8519.00192"},{"key":"2024052223190861000_31.1.56.11","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1467-8519.2004.00393.x"},{"key":"2024052223190861000_31.1.56.12","first-page":"14","volume":"9","year":"1989","journal-title":"Free Inq"},{"key":"2024052223190861000_31.1.56.13","unstructured":"Brock DW. Cloning human beings: an assessment of the ethical issues pro and con. In: National Bioethics Advisory Commission, Cloning human beings vol II: commissioned papers. Rockville, MD: National Bioethics Advisory Commission, 1997:E1\u00e2\u0080\u0093E24."},{"key":"2024052223190861000_31.1.56.14","unstructured":"Roe v Wade 410 US 113 (1973)."},{"key":"2024052223190861000_31.1.56.15","unstructured":"Casey v Planned Parenthood 505 US 833 (1992)."},{"key":"2024052223190861000_31.1.56.16","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/1467-8519.00186"}],"container-title":["Journal of Medical Ethics"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/syndication.highwire.org\/content\/doi\/10.1136\/jme.2004.006650","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2024,5,23]],"date-time":"2024-05-23T07:38:27Z","timestamp":1716449907000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/jme.bmj.com\/lookup\/doi\/10.1136\/jme.2004.006650"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2005,1]]},"references-count":16,"journal-issue":{"issue":"1","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2005,1,5]]},"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2005,1]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1136\/jme.2004.006650"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/jme.2004.006650","relation":{},"ISSN":["0306-6800","1473-4257"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0306-6800","type":"print"},{"value":"1473-4257","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2005,1]]}}}