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Bioethics
January 2025
Institute of Social Sciences, Centre for Sociological and Anthropological Research, Belgrade, Serbia.
The paper offers a critical response to the proposed "dis/analogy" between the restriction of Jehovah's Witness parental right to refuse life-saving blood transfusions for their minor children and a "general" and "permanent" ban on "unnecessary" pediatric intersex surgery. The main argument of the analogy is "securing the patient's future autonomy." Feinberg's theory of rights is used to demonstrate that the proposed analogy is untenable.
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October 2024
Associate Editor, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, London, UK.
The animal nature of human beings has all but disappeared from psychoanalytic discourse. This reflects Freud's struggle with the issue of animality, which he at once repudiates, and simultaneously conceals at the core of human mental life. Freud's use of the terms "animal" and "man" constantly shifts as he attempts to employ them in key areas of analytic theory building, while also shifting his perspective along the way to consider the opposition, similarity and identity of these terms.
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January 2025
Department of Anthropology and Archeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Phys Life Rev
December 2024
Department of Spanish, Linguistics and Literary Theory (Linguistics), Faculty of Philology, University of Seville, Spain. Electronic address:
Together with language, music is perhaps our most distinctive behavioral trait. Following the lead of evolutionary linguistic research, different hypotheses have been proposed to explain why only humans perform music and how this ability might have evolved in the species. In this paper, we advance a new model of music evolution that builds on the theory of self-domestication, according to which the human phenotype is, at least in part, the outcome of a process similar to mammal domestication, triggered by a progressive reduction in reactive aggression levels in response to environmental changes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn 1928, the American Anthropological Association declared that "Anthropology provided no scientific basis for discrimination against any people on the ground of racial inferiority, religious affiliation, or linguistic heritage" (Guthrie, 1976/1998/2004, p. 30). In 1945, Jung denounced race theory as a pseudo-science.
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