Patterns of Mother-Infant Contact: The Significance of Lateral Preference

The use of assisted reproductive technology is increasing rapidly. Research, although sparse, has resulted in inconsistent findings as to the developmental prognosis for infants conceived by assisted reproductive techniques such as in vitro fertilization and the use of fertility drugs. In the present study, the authors compared twins who were spontaneously conceived with those who were conceived through assisted reproductive technology. The authors found differences in birth weight and gestational age. Infants conceived by assisted reproductive technology fared worse than did those who were spontaneously conceived. The authors found no differences between the groups in mental development at 24 months of age, but they found evidence of differences in physical development. Implications of the findings are discussed.     

实施人类辅助生殖技术如何维护医患权益

根据卫生部有关法规,结合我院实施人类辅助生殖技术中维护患者知情同意权的做法、认识和体会,探讨了医患双方的基本权利和义务、特殊项目的知情同意以及在实施辅助生育过程中应处理好的几个关系.     

Sowing Patriotism,But Reaping Nationalism? Consequences of Exposure to the American Flag

The American flag is a frequently displayed national symbol in the United States. Given its high visibility and importance, the present research examines the consequences of exposure to the flag on Americans' sense of national attachment. We hypothesized that the flag would increase patriotism, defined as love and commitment to one's country, and nationalism, defined as a sense of superiority over others. Two experimental studies supported the idea that the American flag increased nationalism, but not necessarily patriotism. The discussion focuses on the practices surrounding the American flag and its implications for the reproduction of American national identity.     

Temporal reproduction

A signal appeared for a certain time period. After the period elapsed, pigeons had to begin and complete a sequence of 15 responses in a time window ranging from the signal duration to 50% longer. Sessions involved as many as 10 different signal durations occurring in a random sequence. The times produced by pigeons often were in the same ranges as those that have been found with adult human subjects. The average times were described equally well as linear or power functions of signal duration. However, instead of the overestimation of durations usually found when animals have timed the duration of antecedent stimuli, the linear functions suggested that the pigeons underestimated the durations of their own behavior. The birds showing the strongest control when the conditions involved eight or 10 different duration requirements revealed the constant coefficients of variation that support Weber's law and scalar timing theory. Scalar timing in temporal differentiation appears to depend on non-ambiguous information about the duration required for reinforcement and on a high degree of sensitivity to the duration requirement.     

Third party assisted conception: an African perspective

The central importance of reproduction in all human cultures has given rise to many methods and techniques of assisting reproduction or overcoming infertility. Such methods and techniques have achieved spectacular successes in the Western world, where processes like in vitro fertilization (IVF) constitute a remarkable breakthrough. In this paper, the author attempts to reflect critically on assisted reproduction technologies (ART) from the background and perspective of African culture, a culture within which human reproduction is given the highest priority but which also exhibits a highly ambivalent attitude to modern technology-assisted methods of reproduction. The author considers the ethical crux of reproductive technologies to be linked to the issue of the moral status of the human embryo and argues that a morally significant line of demarcation cannot be drawn between embryos and other categories of humans.     

对叙事医学三要素的身体社会学阐释

叙事医学三要素与身体社会学三项核心维度在理论上的耦合性,可以厘清以下关系：第一,叙事医学的对象是意义再生和共享的身体,而非疾病和独特的疾病体验;第二,叙事医学是从陌生化的疾病体验中,再现患者（他人）的社会性身体,再现医生真实的“自我”;第三,叙事共同体的目标不是消除疾病,而是通过发现、阅读、倾听和拥有共同的身体故事来实现。叙事医学的三要素与身体社会学的三个维度的理论耦合,解答了叙事医学应关注什么、再现什么、谁归属及归属何处的问题,也为认识医患关系提供了一种新的审视思路和构建方案。

     

生生:儒家超越死亡焦虑的根本路径

“生生”思想是儒家超越死亡焦虑的根本路径,具体体现在以下六个方面:宇宙自然视域下的“原始反终”; 血脉和精神传承视域下的“父死子继”; 丧礼和祭礼视域下的“慎终追远”; 体生和不朽视域下的“存顺没宁”; 生死抉择视域下的“杀身成仁”; 知命和立命视域下的“顺受其正”。儒家以“生生”思想统摄生死,彰显了深沉的人文智慧。