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Author: John A. Robertson Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400821207 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 292
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Cloning, genetic screening, embryo freezing, in vitro fertilization, Norplant, RU486--these are the technologies revolutionizing our reproductive landscape. Through the lens of procreative liberty--meaning both the freedom to decide whether or not to have children as well as the freedom to control one's reproductive capacity--John Robertson, a leading legal bioethicist, analyzes the ethical, legal, and social controversies surrounding each major technology and opens up a multitude of fascinating questions: Do frozen embryos have the right to be born? Should parents be allowed to select offspring traits? May a government force welfare recipients to take contraceptives? Robertson's arguments examine the broad range of consequences of each reproductive technology and offers a timely, multifaceted analysis of the competing interests at stake for patients, couples, doctors, policymakers, lawyers, and ethicists.
Author: John A. Robertson Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400821207 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 292
Book Description
Cloning, genetic screening, embryo freezing, in vitro fertilization, Norplant, RU486--these are the technologies revolutionizing our reproductive landscape. Through the lens of procreative liberty--meaning both the freedom to decide whether or not to have children as well as the freedom to control one's reproductive capacity--John Robertson, a leading legal bioethicist, analyzes the ethical, legal, and social controversies surrounding each major technology and opens up a multitude of fascinating questions: Do frozen embryos have the right to be born? Should parents be allowed to select offspring traits? May a government force welfare recipients to take contraceptives? Robertson's arguments examine the broad range of consequences of each reproductive technology and offers a timely, multifaceted analysis of the competing interests at stake for patients, couples, doctors, policymakers, lawyers, and ethicists.
Author: Shreelata Rao Seshadri Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9811034702 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 170
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This book highlights the reality of malnutrition among school-age children in India and relates it with dietary adequacy, diversity and choice. Using empirical data from field research conducted in Karnataka, India, it documents the nutritional status of school-going children, and examines the socio-economic determinants. It provides insights into changing dietary patterns by analysing case studies from households and schools; and documents the impact of changing dietary choices on the daily nutritional intake of young children. As the issue of nutrition for school-age children is one that is largely neglected in the literature, the book fills an important gap. The book also investigates the policy framework for addressing the nutritional needs of school-going children, and assesses the available government-sponsored interventions in terms of their efficiency and effectiveness, measured by their impact on the nutritional indices of the target group. It offers concrete recommendations for changing the nutritional intake of school-going children. Navigating through the socio-cultural causes for changing food choice and their impact on children’s nutritional outcomes, this book shows a viable path to addressing malnutrition, taking into account both macro-level policy constraints and the micro-level perspectives of families, schools and communities.
Author: Hoko Horii Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000469085 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 135
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This book addresses the issue of agency in relation to child marriage. In international campaigns against child marriage, there is a puzzle of agency: While international human rights institutions celebrate girls’ exercise of their agency not to marry, they do not recognize their agency to marry. Child marriage, usually defined as ‘any formal marriage or informal union where one or both of the parties are under 18 years of age’, is normally considered as forced – which is to say that it is assumed that are not capable of consenting to marriage. This book, however, re-examines this assumption, through a detailed socio-legal examination of child marriage in Indonesia. Eliciting the multiple competing frameworks according to which child marriage takes place, the book considers the complex reasons why children marry. Structural explanations such as lack of opportunities and oppressive social structures are important, but not exhaustive, explanations. Exploring the subjective reasons by listening to children’s perspectives, their stories show that many of them decide to marry for love, desire, to belong to the community, and for new opportunities and hopes. The book, then, demonstrates how the child marriage framework – and, indeed, the human rights framework in general – is constructed on too narrow a vision of human agency: One that cannot but fail to respect and promote the agency of all, regardless of gender, race, religion, and age. This book will be of interest to scholars, students, and practitioners in the areas of children’s rights, legal anthropology, and socio-legal studies.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Education Reform Publisher: ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 48
Author: Lori Heffernon Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1426944195 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 117
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A gripping tale about coming of age and coming into ones own, A Child without a Choice tells of one womans struggles growing up in an oppressive religion. Baptized into her mothers faith, Lori struggles as a young girl with how her religion sets her apart from others, and as a teenager with her desire to fit in and lead a normal life. Filled with the drama of family schisms, the joys of budding romance, the suppression of personal tragedy, dreams of entrepreneurship, travels across the world, and the establishing of business and personal roots in her hometown, Loris story will take you on a journey you dont want to miss.
Author: Jill Brown Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9463001247 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 182
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"The understandings which children have of Indigenous identity provide means by which to explore the ways in which Indigenous identity is both projected and constructed in society. These understandings play a powerful part in the ways in which Indigenous peoples are positioned in the mainstream society with which they are connected. The research presented in this edited collection uses children’s drawings to illuminate and explore the images children, both mainstream and Indigenous, have of Indigenous peoples. The data generated by this process allows exploration of the ways in which Indigenous identity is understood globally, through a series of locally focussed studies connected by theme and approach. The data serves to illuminate both the space made available by mainstream groups, and aspects of modernity accommodated within the Indigenous sense of self. Our aim within this project has been to analyse and discuss the ways in which children construct identity, both their own and that of others. Children were asked to share their thoughts through drawings which were then used as the basis for conversation with the researchers. In this way the interaction between mainstream modernity and traditional Indigenous identity is made available for discussion and the connection between children’s lived experiences of identity and the wider global discussion is both immediately enacted and located within broader international understandings of Indigenous cultures and their place in the world."
Author: Christine Turner Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1441121773 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 177
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A practical handbook packed with tips, techniques and suggestions for all those working and living with learning disabled children aged 3-19.
Author: John A. Robertson
Author: John A. Robertson
Author: Shreelata Rao Seshadri
Author: Hoko Horii
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Education Reform
Author: Lori Heffernon
Author: Stephen Spitalny
Author: Frederick Buckley
Author: Gary Walker
Author: Jill Brown
Author: Christine Turner