Infanticide
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13. Filmmaker focuses on female infanticide
Matrubhoomi imagines a womanless world
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14. Book Review: Infanticide: historical perspectives on child murder and concealment, 1550–2000
Medical History.
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15. Self-ownership, abortion and infanticide.
Doctors have been placed in an anomalous position by abortion laws which sanction the termination of a fetus while in a woman's womb, yet call it murder when a physician attempts to end the life of a fetus which has somehow survived such a procedure. This predicament, the doctors' dilemma, can be resolved by adopting a strategy which posits the right to owne
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16. Intracranial sewing needles: Review of 13 cases.
Three new cases of intracranial sewing needles are reported and are reviewed with 10 other published cases. These needles must have been introduced in infancy before the closure of fontanelles. The intention, at least in most cases, has been infanticide. Except in one case which the mother reported and two cases found at necropsy, the others were diagnosed b
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17. Ethical problems in the management of some severely handicapped children.
This paper examines some of the arguments advanced and acted upon by doctors concerned in decisions about whether severely handicapped patients should live or die. It criticises the view that 'selective treatment' is morally preferable to infanticide and shows how the standard arguments advanced for this preference fail to sustain it. It argues that the self
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18. Loss of oestrus, concealed ovulation and paternity confusion in free-ranging Hanuman langurs.
Ovarian cycles in catarrhine primates are uniquely characterized by prolonged periods of sexual activity in which the timings of ovulation and copulation do not necessarily correspond. According to current hypotheses of primate social evolution, extended sexuality in multi-male groups might represent part of a female strategy to confuse paternity in order to
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19. Attitudes towards Down's syndrome: follow up of a cohort of 280 cases.
A follow up study of a cohort of 280 Down's syndrome (DS) fetuses was initiated in order to estimate the percentage of terminations of pregnancy, the prevalence at birth, the survival of DS children, the attitude of the parents at birth, and the medical and surgical care provided. The present study is a preliminary analysis of the data collected up to the ag