Gendercide

Malta medical journal

Victor Grech¹  Julian Mamo¹ 

关键词: Sex Ratio;    Infant;    Newborn;    Birth Rate/*trends;   

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学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: University of Malta * Medical School

【 摘 要 】

The term gendercide was first coined in 1985 and refers to the deliberate extermination of persons of a particular sex.1 The notion and its potential consequences had been conceived as far back as 1793, when the Marquis Nicolas de Condorcet had speculated “what might be [the effect] on humankind [of] the discovery of a means of producing a male or female child according to the will of the parents [...]. Supposing that this is likely to become a common practice, [...] would it [not] lead to [changes] in the social relations of human beings, whose consequences could be harmful to the peaceable development of that indefinite perfectibility with expectations of which we have flattered humankind?”2

【 授权许可】

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