Encyclopedia of Population : Volume 1: A-H
Language: English
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ISBN: 0028656784
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Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World
Imaginative Horizons: An Essay in Literary-Philosophical Anthropology
Emotion: A Very Short Introduction
The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India
Explanations In contemporary Western countries, many choices that were largely socially prescribed in the past have become options. This creates a new set of risks and a higher degree of uncertainty for individuals. New stages in the life course have emerged, resulting in a ‘‘destandardization’’ of family formation patterns. Cohabitation and living independently without a 154 COHABITATION partner before moving into a couple relationship are such stages. Cohabitation can thus be seen as one
employers face increasing costs in recruitment, training, insurance, and sick pay. A 2001 report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that 7 million farm workers have died from AIDS-related causes since 1985, and 16 million more are expected to die by 2020, with a consequent decrease in agricultural production. Children of families in which the adults are too sick to work are often taken out of school to work on family farms and to care for their relatives, and orphans tend to
of (female) breast cancer among drinkers compared with abstainers, but the low relative risk and the multitude of potential confounding factors make it difficult to draw any firm conclusions about causality. The risk of spontaneous abortion, intrauterine growth retardation, premature birth, and fetal alcohol syndrome is increased by alcohol intake. The available data are not sufficient to indicate whether there is a safe limit for cognitive developmental deficits. The only absolutely safe course
DESTINATION COUNTRIES Rainer Münz INDIGENOUS PEOPLES John Taylor INDUCED ABORTION: HISTORY Etienne van de Walle INDUCED ABORTION: PREVALENCE GRAUNT, JOHN Philip Kreager Stanley K. Henshaw INDUCED ABORTION: LEGAL ASPECTS HARDIN, GARRETT Paul Demeny HAYAMI, AKIRA Osamu Saito HEALTH SYSTEMS Thomas W. Merrick Laura Katzive Stanley K. Henshaw INFANT AND CHILD MORTALITY Anne R. Pebley INFANTICIDE Etienne van de Walle xv xvi LIST OF ARTICLES INFERTILITY Ulla Larsen INFLUENZA Andrew
moral agents. Moral Rights and Moral Agents Moral agents are rational; they have the capacity to bring reason to bear on their moral decision making. Moral agents also are autonomous; they are free to choose between right and wrong. This is why moral agents are morally responsible for their acts. According to the standard view, then, there is an elegant symmetry between being morally responsible on the one hand and having moral rights on the other hand. Only those who are morally responsible
