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Explores the complex issues of personhood, prenatal life and reproductive rights, international perspectives on the regulation of abortion, health professionals and the provision of abortion services, and prenatal diagnosis and abortion. Belinda Bennett is from The University of…
"Directed at a diverse audience of students, legal and public health practitioners, and anyone interested in understanding what human rights-based approaches to health and development mean and why they matter, Power, Suffering, and the Struggle for Dignity provides a solid found…
Directed at a diverse audience of students, legal and public health practitioners, and anyone interested in understanding what human rights-based approaches (HRBAs) to health and development mean and why they matter, Power, Suffering, and the Struggle for Dignity provides a soli…
During the past several decades, the fetus has been diversely represented in political debates, medical textbooks and journals, personal memoirs and autobiographies, museum exhibits and mass media, and civil and criminal law. Ourselves Unborn argues that the meanings people attr…
Traces how Americans from widely different backgrounds have fought over the legal identity, physiological condition, social value, cultural significance, and political status of the human fetus.--from publisher's description.
Suicide and justice: a Chinese perspective
by Wu, Fei
fromRoutledge contemporary China series
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Type: Book
By analyzing 30 cases, Wu Fei studies the dynamics of suicide in terms of family politics and local psychology and finds that suicide is committed when a power balance is broken in the games of power in the family.
Suicide and justice: a Chinese perspective
by Wu, Fei
fromRoutledge contemporary China series
0
Type: Book
"By analyzing 30 cases, Wu Fei studies the dynamics of suicide in terms of family politics and local psychology and finds that suicide is committed when a power balance is broken in the games of power in the family. Unlike public injustice, domestic injustice is not only closely…
How much do animals matter--morally? Can we keep considering them as second class beings, to be used merely for our benefit? Or, should we offer them some form of moral egalitarianism? Inserting itself into the passionate debate over animal rights, this fascinating, provocative …
This dissertation will argue that granting qualified AI-driven robots with legal personhood will serve as a bulwark against the dehumanization of humans. Chapter 1 will introduce the reader to the anthropological problems that Robotic Futurism present for Evangelicals. Chapter 2…
Beginning with perestroika in the 1980s, both Moscow and Beijing have looked to the Russian Far East as a site of strategic commercial expansion. The opening up in 1991 of Vladivostok and a number of other formerly “closed” cities in a region that had been of strategic military …
Chapter 1 introduces the main research question to be answered: when does personhood begin? The chapter outlines the context of the debate, explains the importance of this issue and its relevance to Christian life, and presents the thesis and methodology of this dissertation.
Love Among the Robots offers a cultural overview of fantasies and anxieties about relations with robots between 1970 and the present. I look beyond the techno-pessimistic and techno-optimistic readings of robots and our relations with them to a set of human-machine relations tha…
In this dissertation the question addressed is the ethical protocol that should be used when enhanced, post or transhumans present themselves as patients to hospitals, or as subjects for scientific research. With the advent of the birth of four children who were genetically engi…