Who am I? When do "I" become another? An analytic exploration of identities, sameness and difference, genes and genomes.

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Who am I? When do "I" become another? An analytic exploration of identities, sameness and difference, genes and genomes.

Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy - 1 Mar 2007

Zeiler Kristin

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What is the impact of genetics and genomics on issues of identity and what do we mean when we speak of identity? This paper explores how certain concepts of identity used in philosophy can be brought together in a multi-layered concept of identity. It discusses the concepts of numerical, qualitative, personal and genetic identity-over-time as well as rival concepts of genomic identity-over-time. These are all...

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DOI: 10.1007/s10728-006-0039-z

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