Figures in the Carpet

<DIV>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.</DIV>