" bioethics is confronted with an extraordinarily difficult quandary: how to reconcile the clearly immense differences in the social and personal realities of moral life with the need to apply a universal standard to those fragments of experience that can foster not only comparison and evaluation bu...
In cases where a baby has been born with both Down's Syndrome and some other easily treatable condition, he argues, doctors and parents often refuse to treat the secondary condition so that the baby will die and not grow up with a serious birth defect "an alternative not available to other Down's Syndrome children who are born without accompanying physical ailments. ...
The prehistoric acceleration of population growth after the adoption of sedentism and farming, if it is not an artifact of archaeological reconstruction, could be explained by an increase in fertility or altered birth control decisions that appear to accompany sedentism and agriculture. ...
