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Law, Medicine and Health Care, 1986 I agree with Dr. Kuhse and Prof. Singer on many points. It is of course ethically defensible to decide sometimes that a seriously handicapped newborn baby may be better off dead, that medicine can do no more to help, and that to stop or not initiate medical treatment may be the best we can do.
Keyserlingk, E.W.
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Ageing and Society, 1990 ABSTRACTThis essay considers recent ethical literatures on the question of the direct killing of newborns and of the severely demented elderly. At various points, the arguments in these literatures are brought together for comparison and contrast. Finally, a constructive argument against infanticide and geronticide is developed.
Post, Stephen G.
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Pediatrics, 1978 According to a demographic survey of over 600 primitive populations carried out by William T. Divale of the American Museum of Natural History, there is an extraordinary consistent imbalance of boys over girls in the junior and infant age ranks (up to about 15 years old).
Piers, Maria W.
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Journal of Forensic Science and Medicine, 2017 Infanticide is killing of a child < 12 months of age by a mother who has not fully recovered from the effects of pregnancy, giving birth and lactation, and suffers some degree of mental disturbance.
Arneet Arora +3 more
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, 2017 Several jurisdictions have special infanticide laws that allow for lenient treatment of women who kill their infants. These laws, based on the English legislative model, typically allow for an infanticide charge/conviction where women kill their infants ...
Glenn Hausfater, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
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Infanticide by females is a leading source of juvenile mortality in a large social carnivore
, 2021 Social animals benefit from their group-mates, so why do they sometimes kill each other's offspring? Using 30 years of data from multiple groups of wild spotted hyenas, we address three critical aims for understanding infanticide in any species: (1 ...
Holekamp, Kay E +7 more
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Althea Medical Journal, 2021 Background: Infanticide is a criminal act when a mother kills her child at or soon after birth. Considering whether a case has been decided as infanticide, determination of the life of the neonate at birth is imperative. Breath signs from macroscopic and
Rania Azzahra Salsazayasya Parikesit +2 more
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