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"Euthanasia" in ancient Rome - historical and legal aspects
Journal of Modern ScienceObjectives The purpose of this paper is to analyse the euthanathic homicide in the ancient Rome. The author is looking for answers to the questions: How did the ancient Romans understand euthanasia?
Piotr Sadowski
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Euthanasia and Death with Dignity [PDF]
Journal of Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences University, 2016 Dying has become imposition upon humans, who seek to avoid it as they encounter the inevitably fatal aging process. After the case of Aruna Shanbag a nurse who spent 42 years in a vegetative state as a result of sexual assault, the issue of ...
Yuvraj Dilip Patil
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract Past studies of prostitution have mislabelled Mexican women as prostitutes when it is not clear that they had engaged in transactional sex. Here, we examine the history of prostitution between 1750 and 1865, detailing both legal frameworks and judicial evidence to address the reasons for the inflation of prostitution's presence in Mexico ...
Nora E. Jaffary, Luis Londoño
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Scandalisation, gender and space in ancient Rome: The case of Cicero and Clodia
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyses the public attack on Clodia Metelli, a Roman aristocratic woman, by the orator Marcus Tullius Cicero in a trial in 56 BCE. Drawing on modern scandal theory, this article analyses how Cicero uses scandal dynamics to turn Clodia, the witness in the case, into the culprit.
Muriel Moser
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Faithful men and false women: Love‐suicide in early modern English popular print
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores the representation of suicide committed for love in English popular print in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It shows how, within ballads and pamphlets, suicide resulting from failed courtship was often portrayed as romantic and an expression of devotion.
Imogen Knox
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Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores baby farming in the western regions of late imperial Russia, framing it as a childcare practice of the lower‐classes – a form of crèche for working mothers. The article delves into the public discourse surrounding baby farming among the educated strata and contrasts it with how this practice was viewed by the lower ...
Ekaterina Oleshkevich
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What medical conditions lead to a request for euthanasia? A rapid scoping review
Health Science ReportsBackground and Aims Euthanasia is a controversial issue related to the right to die. Although euthanasia is mostly requested by terminally sick individuals, even in societies where it is legal, it is unclear what medical conditions lead to euthanasia ...
Zahra Rahimian +6 more
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Euthanasia in South Africa: Philosophical and theological considerations
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2017 Debates on euthanasia (or mercy killing ) have been a concern in moral, philosophical, legal, theological, cultural and sociological discourse for centuries.
Mojalefa L.J. Koenane
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