|
Infanticide
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
Infanticide Most societies agree that the drive...infant is a basic human trait. Yet infanticide — the killing of an infant...ancient and contemporary, have practiced infanticide. Based upon both historical and contemporary...
|
|
infanticide
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
infanticide [Lat.,=child murder], the putting...the parent, family, or community. Infanticide often occurs among peoples whose food...the Chinese and the Eskimo). Female infanticide was common in some traditional patriarchal...
|
|
Abandonment
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
...including ancient and medieval Europe, infanticide was an important means of population...implying that abandonment was tantamount to infanticide. This view was challenged in 1988 by...abandonment should not be conflated with infanticide, whatever its death toll, is supported...
|
|
|
Baby Farming
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
...farming was just a form of commercial infanticide, that the infants in the care of baby...baby farmers as a means of committing infanticide indirectly, with the promise of infant...relatively easy and well-paid job. Infanticide was very difficult to prove, particularly...
|
|
killing
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...also subject to termination through infanticide. Socially and legally reprehensible in many cultures today, infanticide was widely practised for eugenic...mercy killing’). Like infanticide, euthanasia was practised in Greek...
|
|
|
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
...been explained, at various times, as infanticide, overlaying (accidental suffocation...nineteenth century, the frequency of infanticide was a matter of growing concern. In...involved infants. Disraeli said that infanticide was "hardly less prevalent in England...
|
|
Abortion
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...practice has been, especially relative to contraception and infanticide; and the role of church and state. Induced abortion was...ancient Greece and Rome, although not nearly as widespread as infanticide. The timing of animation or ensoulment was of great interest...
|
|
Gwich'in
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement
...to below 1,000 in the late-nineteenth century. Female infanticide further decreased Gwich'in population through the late...culture including songs, dances, potlatches, shamans, infanticide, polygyny, and polyandry. In the early-twentieth century...
|
|
|
cot death
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...Infants found dead in bed’. At that time infanticide was common and accounted for over 80% of all coroner...of murder in England and Wales. Disraeli said that infanticide was ‘hardly less prevalent in England than...
|
|
Koop, Charles Everett
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...controversial health issues such as smoking, abortion, infanticide, and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Koop...Hospital influenced his strong positions against abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia. While at Children's Hospital, Koop...
|
