An attempt to pass a FG 8 infant feeding tube into the stomach failed which made as suspect some esophageal obstruction. An X-ray of the neck and chest showed a dense foreign body in the esophagus (Fig. 1). The baby was immediately shifted to operation theatre and the esophageal foreign body was removed. The foreign body was a pebble with an irregular surface measuring about 2.5 cm in Fig.1. X-...

Alberto Giubilini and Francesco Minerva's recent infanticide proposal is predicated on their personism and actualism. According to these related ideas, human beings achieve their moral status in virtue of the degree to which they are capable of laying value upon their lives or exhibiting certain qualities or being desirable to third-party family members. This article challenges these criteria, ...

Social dynamics can play a major role in shaping the population ecology and evolutionary trajectory of species. This is, for instance, case species known to experience infanticide when dominant male is replaced by another. Infanticide males has been observed many taxa, mostly that breed year-round which few monopolize reproduction. In such species, often occurs after take-overs breeding groups,...

The fresco cycle painted at the behest of Pope Sixtus IV in the late 1470s in the main ward of the hospital of Santo Spirito in rome comprises an extended pictorial biography of Sixtus, prefaced by scenes representing the legendary foundation of the hospital by his predecessor Innocent III. The legend, which tells how Innocent established Santo Spirito as a foundling hospital in response to the...