Month: December 2016

• How Ethical is Ethical Compromise?

  What to do with a minefield? Once it is there, is it sufficient to avoid it while we investigate and map it –mark it off as terra incognita- or must we act immediately to attempt to remove all mines even if we do not fully understand their distribution or destructive capabilities? Even if we may miss […]

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  December 28, 2016

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  argumentum ad temperantium, categories of FGM, CBC News, compromise, Confirmation bias, de minimis, ethical compromise, ethics, fallacy, female genital alteration, female genital mutilation, FGA, FGM, Journal of Medical Ethics, mores, prima facie, primum non nocere., social norms, Truth

• What did you expect?

  We have become obligate avoiders, dwellers in the middle of the field well away from boundaries –the just-right-baby-bears of the Goldilocks tale. We seek to protect ourselves from edges, no matter how pervasive, how common, how important they may be. It was for a very good reason that the American folk hero, John Wayne, felt […]

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  December 21, 2016

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  BBC news, birth, children at the birth, Death, delivery, end of life, gestalt, midwife, obstetrical practice, placenta, women’s health, Youtube

• Who Wants a Country of Boys?

  We mortals seem to be good at assumptions; they are shortcuts that allow us to function without the requirement of constantly checking the validity of beliefs or items in our environment. Part of it is trust; part of it is process, and yet I don’t want to get into a semantic discussion of the manifold […]

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  December 14, 2016

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  assumptions, asylum seekers, BBC news, family reunification, Hamlet, Hanif Bali, male refugees, refugees, secondary sex ratio, sex ratio at birth, sex ratios, Sweden, Swedish parliament, Swedish social system, tertiary sex ratio

• The Unfallen Yellow Leaf

  ‘Age, with his stealing steps, hath clawed me in his clutch,’ as the gravedigger in Hamlet says. I’m not so sure I agree –he was speaking about a skull, after all- but I have to admit there are times when I do feel old, and shipped ‘into the land as if I had never been […]

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  December 7, 2016

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  Age, aged, eyes, faces, Hamlet, John Updike, memories, patients, pregnancy care, Rabbit, recognition, the gravedigger