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Infanticide: A Historical Perspective (private)
Şahin Aksoy*Manchester University, Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, United Kingdom
Recent achievements in medical science and technology, beside their favours, made health care professionals and parents face with new moral dilemmas. One of them was improvements on the treatment of 'handicapped' or 'disadvantaged' children. In these cases, infanticide is one of the options. In this article, infanticide is examined from a historical perspective, aiming to reveal the roots of present tendency to practice it, and offered two different versions of infanticide, namely 'Western version' and 'Non-western version'.Keywords: Infanticide, Handicapped, AntiquityT Klin J Med Ethics 1998, 6:20-23
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