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Contingent Lives
Author | : Caroline H. Bledsoe |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2010-11-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780226058504 |
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Most women in the West use contraceptives in order to avoid having children. But in rural Gambia and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, many women use contraceptives for the opposite reason—to have as many children as possible. Using ethnographic and demographic data from a three-year study in rural Gambia, Contingent Lives explains this seemingly counterintuitive fact by juxtaposing two very different understandings of the life course: one is a linear, Western model that equates aging and the ability to reproduce with the passage of time, the other a Gambian model that views aging as contingent on the cumulative physical, social, and spiritual hardships of personal history, especially obstetric trauma. Viewing each of these two models from the perspective of the other, Caroline Bledsoe produces fresh understandings of the classical anthropological subjects of reproduction, time, and aging as culturally shaped within women's conjugal lives. Her insights will be welcomed by scholars of anthropology and demography as well as by those working in public health, development studies, gerontology, and the history of medicine.
The Principles and Doctrine of Assurances Annuities on Lives and Contingent Reversions Stated and Explained
Author | : William MORGAN (F.R.S.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1821 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0024517393 |
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The Contingent Nature of Life
Author | : Marcus Düwell,Christoph Rehmann-Sutter,Dietmar Mieth |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2008-04-19 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781402067648 |
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This volume explores the different dimensions of how the contingency of life, and especially human life, is relevant for ethical discussions and the normative frameworks in bioethics. It explores the relevance of the notion contingency, needs and desires for moral argumentation and bioethics. The volume discusses those notions in a philosophical perspective. Additionally, the volume is a contribution to a deeper reflection on basic philosophical assumptions of bioethics.
Contingent Future Persons
Author | : N. Fotion,J.C. Heller |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9789401155663 |
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How ought we evaluate the individual and collective actions on which the existence, numbers and identities of future people depend? In the briefest of terms, this question poses what is addressed here as the problem of contingent future persons, and as such it poses relatively novel challenges for philosophical and theological ethicists. For though it may be counter-intuitive, it seems that those contingent future persons who are actually brought into existence by such actions cannot benefit from or be harmed by these actions in any conventional sense of the terms. This intriguing problem was defined almost three decades ago by Jan Narveson [2], and to date its implications have been explored most exhaustively by Derek Parfit [3] and David Heyd [1]. Nevertheless, as yet there is simply no consensus on how we ought to evaluate such actions or, indeed, on whether we can. Still, the pursuit of a solution to the problem has been interestingly employed by moral philosophers to press the limits of ethics and to urge a reconsideration of the nature and source of value at its most fundamental level. It is thus proving to be a very fruitful investigation, with far-reaching theoretical and practical implications.
Solutions Manual for Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks
Author | : David C. M. Dickson,Mary R. Hardy,Howard R. Waters |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2012-03-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781107608443 |
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"This manual presents solutions to all exercises from Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks (AMLCR) by David C.M. Dickson, Mary R. Hardy, Howard Waters; Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN 9780521118255"--Pref.
Contingent Encounters
Author | : DAN. DIPIERO |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2022-08-31 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0472133152 |
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Investigates the relationship between improvisation in music and in everyday life
Tables and Tracts Connected with the Valuation of Annuities and Assurances Contingent on the Duration of Life
Author | : J. Marshall (of Kingston, Jamaica.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : NLS:V000642623 |
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Contingent Lives
Author | : Nigel Worden |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) |
ISBN | : 062038509X |
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