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- Dougherty, Jude P. (March 2021). "What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics by O. Carter Snead (review)". The Review of Metaphysics. 74 (3): 415–417. doi:10.1353/rvm.2020.0103. S2CID 258132725.
- Onarecker, Cheyn (2020). "Book Review: O. Carter Snead, "What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics"". Ethics and Medicine. 36 (2).
- Levin, Yuval (8 November 2020). "'What It Means to Be Human' Review: Unchosen Obligations". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
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