Humans are fascinated by animal monogamy. In the 1960s, Konrad Lorenz idealized the lifelong pair-bonds of geese until one of his students pointed out some infidelities and suggested that geese may be “only human” (1), and Desmond Morris (2) speculated about the advantages of the pair-bond for early humans. Even though many theories have since been proposed, human monogamous inclinations have a...

médée d’anouilh, resurgie des profondeurs de la mythologie, met en scène la mère passionnée et infanticide. atteinte de la démesure, médée sacrifie tout pour l’amour de jason. mais confrontée à la trahison, elle met une fin sanglante à sa passion débordée. médée d’anouilh se diffère de médée antique par ce fait qu’elle refuse de continuer à vivre dans le monde des médiocres, par-là elle préfère...

In this paper, we present a conditional argument for the moral permissibility of some kinds of infanticide. The argument is based on a certain view of consciousness and the claim that there is an intimate connection between consciousness and infanticide. In bare outline, the argument is this: it is impermissible to intentionally kill a creature only if the creature is conscious; it is reasonabl...

In late-Qing-dynasty Taiwan (1870-1895), female infanticide and general neglect killed over 15% of young girls. During the early years of Japanese rule (1895-1915), female infanticide was almost completely eliminated and the treatment of girls improved. This paper argues that the increase in the willingness to raise daughters was due to an increase in adult female productivity. Under Japanese r...

abstract  this is a case of a 6 mouths old boy victim of an attempted infanticide by using sharp long needles inserted  through his abdominal wall. he was successfully  managed by laparoscopic approach.

I suspect that, among other effects, the article will produce a feeling of anachronism among readers that have accompanied the recent developments in the ethnology of South American indigenous cultures. It seems to me that this failure, certainly attributable in part to the limitations of perspective that constitute one of the prices and risks of disciplinary specialization, does not fundamenta...

The handling of infanticide in late medieval France offers modern audiences an underappreciated paradox: on the one hand infant murder was deplored as grave sin and crime, other hand, it a pardonable offence, even infanticidal singlemother who had killed to conceal her could obtain royal grace. This is far more than usual story law differing from practice. Christian ideology mercy forgiveness f...