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What It Means to Be Human

The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics

O. Carter Snead

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ISBN 9780674987722

Publication Date: 10/13/2020

336 pages

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Introduction
1. A Genealogy of American Public Bioethics
2. An Anthropological Solution
3. In Cases of Abortion
4. Assisted Reproduction
5. Death and Dying
Conclusion
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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Read a Wall Street Journal interview with Carter Snead on how prosperous Western nations responded to COVID-19 using a framework of “expressive individualism”—which defines the self in terms of the will rather than the body
At National Review, read a What It Means to Be Human–inspired analysis of comedian Bo Burnham’s Netflix special Inside
Watch Professor Snead discuss What It Means to Be Human at a February 2021 online event hosted by the Liberal Learning for Life program at the University of Dallas
Watch Snead lecture on What It Means to Be Human (followed by a panel discussion) at the 2021 Reverend Kevin J. Feeney Symposium at the Sheil Catholic Center, Northwestern University
Watch Snead discuss What It Means to Be Human at a January 2021 online event hosted by the Sheen Center for Thought and Culture (New York, NY) and National Review
Listen to Snead discuss What It Means to Be Human on the National Review podcast The Bookmonger
Watch Snead discuss with First Things editor R. R. Reno what it would take for a bioethics informed by an embodied anthropology to shape public policy
Listen to Snead discuss What It Means to Be Human on the Law and Religion Forum podcast Legal Spirits
Watch a November 2020 Heritage Foundation virtual event on What It Means to Be Human featuring Snead in conversation with Princeton University’s Robert P. George and American Enterprise Institute’s Yuval Levin
On the podcast BreakPoint, listen to Snead describe the prominence of expressive individualism in bioethics—and make the case that parenthood and end-of-life care must be addressed to enable human flourishing
Read a Crux interview with Snead
Watch an October 2020 panel discussion on What It Means to Be Human, hosted by the University of Notre Dame, featuring Snead in conversation with Harvard University law professor Mary Ann Glendon, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, and The American Conservative senior editor Rod Dreher
At the New York Post, read Snead’s call for Americans to heal themselves by recalling that “we belong to one another”
At the Washington Post, read Snead’s reassurance that liberals have “nothing to fear” from Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett
Watch Snead present What It Means to Be Human at a September 2020 online event hosted by the University of Notre Dame de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture

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Co-Winner, 2020–2021 Expanded Reason Award for Research, Expanded Reason Institute at the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria

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