David PérezLo que dice la piel, Caracas, Venezuela, 2005.
Photo: courtesy David Perez

“The ‘coherence’ and ‘continuity’ of ‘the person’ are not logical or analytic features of personhood, but rather, socially instituted and maintained norms of intelligibility.”

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