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Mission impossible: upholding successfully a charge of infanticide in the Albanian legal practice.
Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, 2015 Infanticide is a horrendous crime universally condemned from all ethical, juridical and moral standpoints. However, legislation on infanticide foresees mitigating circumstances for infanticidal mothers, with sentences by far disproportionate to the ...
Kreshnik Myftari, Gentian Vyshka
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Mammal Review, Volume 56, Issue 2, June 2026.This semi‐systematic review supports the two dominant drivers of birth phenology: the seasonality and predation hypotheses. Even though there is evidence of their importance, the effects of female, offspring and population characteristics remain marginally accounted for. Asian and South and Central American species are currently understudied.
Lucie Thel +2 more
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Extraordinary measures of sibling worldmaking
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 2, June 2026.Abstract In this ethnographic research project involving disabled and non/disabled siblings in Canada, we have found that during major life‐changing transitions, such as the death of a parent, siblings face many challenges, including structural and systemic inequalities, struggles with and within various service systems, and difficulties with emotions ...
Pamela Block, Helen Ries, Dima Kassem
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Concealed coexistence: Reproductive choice and coercion in Timor‐Leste
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 2, June 2026.Abstract Choice is a central concept in reproductive rights. However, a discourse of choice in reproductive health can also mask precisely the act it aims to protect against: coercion. Whilst choice has been explored extensively in studies of reproductive rights and justice, understandings of coercion are fragmented and under‐theorized.
Laura Burke
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 2, June 2026.Abstract Women's subjective relationship with their pregnancy is central in understanding fetal personhood, a relationship that is theirs to assemble and disassemble. A rigid perception of personhood as either present or absent is problematized, instead revealing an evolving approach.
Susie Kilshaw
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Filial cannibalism in the Black Stork (Ciconia nigra)
The European Zoological JournalFilial and sibling cannibalism have never been documented in Black Storks (Ciconia nigra). We gathered information on 34 breeding events in 10 Black Stork nests from Estonia (three nests), Hungary (two nests), Poland (two nests) and Spain (three nests ...
L. S. Cano-Alonso +8 more
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US AND THE OTHERS: NOTION OF PERSON IN THE NATIONAL CONGRESS DEBATES ABOUT INDIGENOUS INFANTICIDE
Espaço Ameríndio, 2014 This essay reflects upon the contrasting conceptions of personhood which pervade the legal debate surrounding indigenous infanticide. For the defenders of the Muwaji Law - as the Project of Law 1057/07 became known, which proposes the criminalization of ...
Marlise Mirta Rosa
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Rising incidence of feticide, neonaticide, and infanticide in Pakistan: An emerging crisis
Global PediatricsFeticide, neonaticide, and infanticide are serious crimes under the law; however, they remain prevalent in South Asian countries, including Pakistan.
Muneeb Saifullah +6 more
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Krakowskie Studia z Historii Państwa i PrawaThe article discusses the representation of infanticide in selected Scottish and Polish ballads. The analysis aims to compare Scottish and Polish law and literature.
Katarzyna Jaworska-Biskup
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Infanticide – Perspectives and Roles of Different Stakeholders
Journal of Forensic Science and MedicineInfanticide is defined as the act of deliberate killing of human beings below the age of 12 months. The common modes of infanticides can be heterogeneous ranging across various methods such as strangulation, head trauma, suffocation, and drowning ...
Sayanti Paul, Mukul Sharma, Arghya Pal
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