What is a human? : what the answers mean for human rights / John H. Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, John Hyde, 1965- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Anthropological aspects.

Human rights.

Political anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Scholars claim that if the public has particular definitions of a human they will treat others like objects or animals. This book examines these claims and finds that some definitions do lead to maltreatment, but the definitions of a majority of the public are unlikely to do so.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Anthropologies and Human Rights in the Academic Debate

Chapter 3 The General Public, Academic Anthropologies, and Human Rights

Chapter 4 The Public's Biological Anthropologies: DNA and Analogies to Existing Humans

Chapter 5 The Public's Philosophical Anthropologies: Autonomous and Social Traits

Chapter 6 The Public's Theological Anthropologies: The Image of God and the Soul

Chapter 7 The Public's Socially Conferred Anthropology: Humans Making Humans Human

Chapter 8 Conclusion: Re-assessing the Academic Debate about Anthropologies

Appendix A Formal Statistical Analyses of the Survey Data

Appendix B Public Opinion Survey

Appendix C In-depth Interviews

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-060809-9

0-19-060810-2

0-19-060808-0