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INTERNATIONAL HUMANIST NEWS

May 2004

From the Executive Director<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

 

Many of the advances that revolutionized medicine from the end of the 18th century, from vaccination, to the use of anaesthetics in childbirth, to the first test-tube babies, were fiercely opposed by sections of the religious establishment.

IHEU-Appignani Humanist Center for Bioethics<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> By Babu Gogineni

 

IHEU recently applied successfully for a grant of US$150,000 from the Appignani Foundation in the United States to establish a Humanist Center for Bioethics.

The Ethics of Life<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> By Robert Buckman

 

Ethics is the process of trying to identify the things that we should do from the wide range of things that we can do.

Female Foeticide in India By Indu Grewal and J.

Empowering Nepalese Women Through Humanism

By Maya Devi Katuwal<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />