Figures in the Carpet

What does it mean to be a human person? This volume is a historical inquiry into that foundational, deceptively simple question. Viewing the human person from various perspectives -- law, education, business, media, religion, medicine, community life, gender, art -- sixteen historians of American life explore how our understanding of personhood has changed over time and how that changing understanding has significantly affected our ideas about morality and human rights, our conversations about public policy, and our American culture as a whole.

Author: Wilfred M. McClay
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: 12/01/2006
Pages: 518
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.61lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.28w x 1.11d
ISBN: 9780802863119

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2007 pg. 26

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