T. Suehara, Agriculture and Human Beings

Brucella Infection Causing Abortion in Human Beings

Calcium orthophosphates and human beings

The historical development of a scientific knowledge on calcium orthophosphates from the 1770s until 1940 is described. Many forgotten and poorly known historical facts and approaches have been extracted from old publications and then they have been analyzed, systematized and reconsidered from the modern point of view. The chosen time scale starts with the earliest available studies of 1770s (t...

On cloning human beings.

The purpose of this paper is to show that arguments for and against cloning fail to make their case because of one or both of the following reasons: 1) they take for granted customary beliefs and assumptions that are far from being unquestionable; 2) they tend to ignore the context in which human cloning is developed. I will analyze some of the assumptions underlying the main arguments that hav...

Gnathostomiasis in Human Beings

The deaths of human beings.

In ‘When Does a Human Being Die?’ Schofield et al. present a definition of death focused on the ‘final denouement’ of human beings as biological organisms. Their view is such that the moment of death occurs ‘when the last process in the collection of bodily processes that maintain homoeostasis finally cease[s]’. Whilst this definition avoids certain conceptual problems there are difficulties wi...