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Human Death – A View from the Beginning of Life

Bioethics, 2002
This paper presents a simple argument against definitions of the death of a human being in terms of death, or the cessation of functioning, of its brain: a human being is alive, and so is capable of dying, before it acquires a brain. Although a more accurate definition is sketched, it is stressed that it should not be taken for granted that it is ...
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Structure and dynamics of human communication at the beginning of life

European Archives of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences, 1986
Although the beginning of postpartum social integration and communication has been long viewed as relevant to psychiatric theories, early parent-infant communication has become a matter of scientific investigation only recently. The present survey explains the significance of an approach based upon the general systems theory and explores to what extent
H, Papousek, M, Papousek
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Aquinas on the Beginning and End of Human Life

Choice Reviews Online, 2013
In contemporary discussions of abortion, both sides argue well-worn positions, particularly concerning the question, When does human life begin? Though often invoked by the Catholic Church for support, Thomas Aquinas in fact held that human life begins after conception, not at the moment of union.
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The Beginning of Human Life: Contraceptive Implications

1994
Contraception by its very definition implies prevention of the formation of a conceptus. On the surface, therefore, it would seem that contraception is clearly separated from the issue of when human life begins. Nevertheless, attitudes on contraception are often influenced by attitudes toward pregnancy termination and at what stage of pregnancy the ...
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The beginning of human life and its modern scientific assessment

Clinics in Perinatology, 2003
One of the most controversial topics in modern bioethics, science, and philosophy is the beginning of individual human life. In the seemingly endless debate, strongly stimulated, by recent technologic advances in human reproduction, a synthesis between scientific data and hypothesis, philosophical thought, and issues of humanities has become a ...
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The beginning of human life: Nursing students concept.

Studies in health technology and informatics, 2006
Fundamental issues about bioethical problems, very common and frequently encountered in health areas from which legal social, and cultural decisions are made. Empathizes the meaning and process of this phenomenon, and the experiences given by a group of young people studying a health related professions.
Leal, Viviana, Caballero, Erika, Inalaf, Carmen   +2 more
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Legal Aspects of the Beginning of Human Life

1994
The claim of this paper to be international is modest. It considers legal aspects of the beginning of human life in the context only of the English Common Law tradition, as opposed to that, for instance, of the Civil Law tradition of continental Europe, and approaches the Common Law through the legal experiences of the United States, Canada, and ...
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Normal Development and the Beginning of Human Life

2017
This chapter looks at the beginnings of embryonic development, the function of embryonic stem cells. The development of the human embryo strikes both scientists and laypeople alike with awe and mystery. However, there is no consensus among scientists as to when the fetus becomes a “person.” This chapter will discuss these various stages of development ...
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Aquinas on the Beginning of Individual Human Life

2008
Abstract When did I begin? When does any individual human being begin? At what stage of its development does a human organism become entitled to the moral and legal protection which we give to the life of human adults? Is it at conception, or at birth, or somewhere between the two?
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The Beginning of Human Life as an Ethical Problem

The Journal of Religion, 1967
ing is important both for the center of an ethical relationship and for the boundary question of how far ethical obligation is to extend. It is the purpose of the present paper to attack the issue by dealing specifically with the boundary problem at the point of the beginning of individual human life.
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