Surrogacy agencies in China and the United States are catering to wealthy Chinese who want babies outside the country's restrictive family planning policies, who are unable to conceive themselves or who are seeking U.S. citizenship for their children.
Generals may conceive themselves deities — Montgomery, a monster of conceit, once reportedly opened a reading of the Gospel with the words, "And the Lord said unto Moses, and, in my opinion, quite rightly"— but historians and biographers must do better.
That is, the members of a lineage did not act as individuals in the politico-jural domain, instead conceiving themselves to a considerable extent as undifferentiated and continuous with each other.
The independence of Schelling and his importance for philosophy are only now being recognized, and that in connection with Existential philosophy and philosophical anthropology, which conceive themselves as counteracting the philosophy of absolute reason.
The misfits and draft dodgers that Ford's protagonist, Dell Parsons, meets as he makes a new life for himself north of the border all conceive themselves in relation to their southern neighbours, to the lives they've cut themselves free from.
If descriptive, asserting that selves simply conceive themselves as unified over their lives within a narrative structure, then it seems false.
But I see nothing wrong with giving the fertilized eggs to couples who cannot conceive themselves.
Perhaps the BPL is just conditioning subjects to re-conceive themselves as more racist, sexist, ableist or critical.
We argue that this approach, with its emphasis on relatedness and interdependence while maintaining agency, is congruent with the Pakistani context where individuals largely conceive themselves as the composite of relationships that produce them.
The participating CHC nurses conceive themselves to be professionally unprepared to manage childhood overweight, which can result in their failure to recognise cases of overweight among the younger children in their care.
