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Contextualizing Female Infanticide: Ming China in Early Modern European Travelogues
The ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts, 2010 One of the essential components of the early modern European response to China was an emphasis on the fabulous wealth and social organization of Chinese society.
Van Symons
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Infanticide for Handicapped Infants: Sometimes It's a Metaphysical Dispute
, 1988 Since 1973, the practice of infanticide for some severely handicapped newborns has been receiving more open discussion and defence in the literature on medical ethics. A recent and important argument for the permissiblity of infanticide relies crucially
Long, Thomas A.
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History, Infanticide, and Imperiled Newborns
, 1988 Ethicists who advocate the permissibility of infanticide often have misrepresented history in their arguments. The Western tradition supports the prohibition of active killing of congenitally impaired or premature newborns whose futures are ...
Post, Stephen G.
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A test of male infanticide as a reproductive tactic in a cichlid fish [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Infanticide and offspring cannibalism are taxonomically widespread phenomena. In some group-living species, a new dominant individual taking over a group can benefit from infanticide if doing so induces potential mates to become reproductively available ...
Shagun Jindal +3 more
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The Dark Figure of Infanticide in England and Wales
, 2006 Infants aged younger than 12 months have the highest homicide victimization rate of any single age group in England and Wales. In addition, there are good grounds for believing that the official homicide statistics for this particular age group are an ...
Nolan, Jane +3 more
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Qu'ranic and Historical Analysis of Killing Girls in Pre-Islamic Era [PDF]
تحقیقات علوم قرآن و حدیث, 2012 Among the issues about women in pre-Islamic era are the two following subjects: the status of girls and killing them. These two issues are studied in this artich from both Qur'anic and historical perspective.
Mahdi Mehrizi, Maryam Mashhadi AliPur
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International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2023 Victoria Nagy reviews Infanticide: Expert Evidence and Testimony in Child Murder Cases, 1688-1955 by Rachel Dixon.
Victoria Nagy
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Fighting female infanticide by working with midwives: an Indian case study
, 1996 A feature of family life in many cultures and throughout history has been preference for sons over daughters. This article describes a workshop with traditional midwives in Bihar, which explored the underlying power structures in families and the ...
Murthy, Ranjani
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International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.Abstract The term femicide, widely used in reference to the “killing of a woman because she is a woman,” has been questioned on the ground that it implies unequal dignity of men and women victims of gender related death. This position called for an analysis of the terminology used to describe and define the various forms of killing of women and men. We
Giuseppe Benagiano +3 more
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