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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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The “Beginning” of Human Life

1988
The Question May Be Placed: When does human life begin? But what is being asked when that question is raised? Is a point in time being sought, some moment in gestation where a line is crossed that differentiates the human from the nonhuman? If a point in time is the aim, for what purpose is it sought: to begin a chapter in an embryology textbook, or to
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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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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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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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When does human life begin?

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 1980
Causation theory is applied to the question of the point at which human life begins. It is concluded that the potential human being becomes actualized through the cessation of an exclusive in-utero dependency upon the material, formal, and efficient causes of its being, and the beginning of a nonexclusive ex-utero dependency upon nurturing and care ...
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Aquinas on the Beginning and End of Human Life

2015
Abstract The chapter provides a response to Patrick Toner, “Critical Study of Fabrizio Amerini’s Aquinas on the Beginning and End of Human Life,” Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy 2 (2013), 211–28. The chapter corrects two misrepresentations in Toner’s review.
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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

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1992
F K, Beller, G P, Zlatnik
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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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