WDW101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Medicalization, Omen, Rational Agent
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Draft introduction: introduce topic and establish thesis (no more then 1,5 page) A legal concept and its for the causation of death by the mother. In canada covers the child up to one year of its life. Not every instance is found to be infanticide (an issue of mental illness ahs to be there (one of the only sex specific crimes) The status saying child birth and lactation can make women nuts to kill there child. These can be seen as a sexist pathology of women, and re-enforces a stereotypes (they are frail because they are women) This kind of talk reinforces that women are frail and unworthy of important figure. In the uk, infanticide passed in 1922 [and psychology had a significant part in the law/ and psychiatry joined in in the stereotyping of women- women"s deviance is part of them as individuals, and all women have this flaw]