Philosophy 2810F/G Chapter Notes -The Chronic, Triage, Medical Record
18 Sep 2012
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Lifeboat ethics motherly love in brazil scheper hughes. For the women and children of the alto do cruzeiro the only miracle is that some of them have managed to stay alive at all. 1 million children in brazil under the age of 5 die each year. But any child not in school is also expected to find wage work babies are simply left at home alone the door securely fastened. In most alto homes dangerous kerosene lamps have been replaced by light bulbs. Seeming indifference of alto women to the death of their infants. More difficult to enlist a mother herself in the rescue of a child she perceived as ill fated for life or a better off dead. Mothers stepped back and allowed nature to take its course, this pattern is called mortal selective neglect or passive infanticide.
