Word: humaneness
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...ELTIS: Once more the insider-outsider divide is critical. At root, this is an expression of the contradiction in all human beings of the need to belong and at the same time to differentiate themselves. My argument is that societies do not usually enslave their own members, except for what is perceived as anti-social behavior. Between the Dark Ages and Columbian contact ? aided by the concept of Christendom ? Europe came to form an important element in the collective identities (that is the way people saw themselves as a group) of all western European peoples. Thus the French, Germans, English...
...ELTIS: Document after document on the slave trade shows human beings making matter-of-fact decisions about the lives of others as though they were pieces of merchandise. There is no hint of guilt or recrimination. It is because we cannot understand this mind-set today, that, difficult as it is, we have to attempt to distance ourselves from modern values. If we do not do so, we will not come to understand how such things could happen, and if historians can't do this, then they have no function beyond story tellers...
...This is a large step forward in reducing pediatric AIDS," Dr. Duane Alexander, director of the U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development said in a press release...
...study will give these countries more treatment options," said Dr. Lynne M. Mofenson, the associate branch chief for clinical research in the pediatric, adolescent and maternal AIDS branch at National Institute of Child Health and Human Development...
...National Institutes of Health (NIH) policy that requires all scientists who use human subjects to undergo special education before receiving NIH grant dollars went into effect Sunday...