... Search of Consistency: Ethics and Animals Human AnimalStudies Editor Kenneth Shapiro Animals and Society Institute Editorial Board Ralph Acampora, Hofstra University Clifford Flynn, University of ... protectionists, “[t]he heart of the concept of the intrinsic value of life is the claim that the value of an animal is not limited to an analysis of its usefulness to humans (The value of something that ... definition of what it is to be an animal reminds us of morally relevant similarities and can thereby help us in the process of determining our rightful moral relationship with the rest of the animal...
... doubt the existence of the minds of animals also gives us reason to doubt the existence of the minds of other humans We are faced with a choice between attributing mental states to animals and solipsism ... assessments of anymals is not surprising Another example of human partiality and hubris relates directly to ethics Humans have long assumed that only the human animal has a system of ethics In spite of ... scenes,” supporting a given point of view or attitude, even though most of us are unaware of our own worldview (Marietta 8) How often we say to ourselves, “Human life is of extreme value in my worldview,...
... consideration of interests does not take account of my interests, or the interests of Australians, or of whites Equal consideration of interests requires us to move beyond personal or sectional points of ... rejection of speciesism does not imply that all lives are of equal worth It is not arbitrary to hold that the life of a self-aware being, capable of abstract thought, of planning for the future, of ... “features of certain beings make their lives more valuable than those of other beings”: A self-aware being, capable of abstract thought, of planning for the future, of complex acts of communication,...
... death of individuals is necessary to the healthy maintenance of the whole: The death of individuals, often violently by predation, is necessary both for the health of species and the viability of ... Domestic animals are the creations of man There is thus something profoundly incoherent (and insensitive as well) in the complaint of some animal liberationists that the “natural behavior” of chickens ... in the biocentric outlook: “the conception of humans as members of the Earth’s Community of Life; the view of nature as a system of interdependence of which we, along with all other living things,...
... and wild animals of the earth of every kind.” And it was so God made the wild animals of the earth of every kind, and the cattle of every kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground of every ... is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; I not delight in the blood of bulls or of lambs, or of he-goats.” Some ... have life, are all alike for animals, and all animals are for man Wherefore it is not unlawful if man use plants for the good of animals, and animals for the good of man, as the Philosopher states...
... needs of those animals that require protection from the exploitative ways of human beings The Book of Job speaks loudly against human-centered utilitarian assessments of creation The Book of Job ... another apotheosis of loyalty and self-surrender like that of Hanuman He is the Hindu ideal of the perfect servant, the servant who finds full realization of manhood, of faithfulness, of his obedience; ... to live lives of self-sacrificing service toward every aspect of creation This all-embracing love is exemplified by saints such as Therese of Lisieux and Julian of Norwich Therese of Lisieux saw...
... must rescue, from the terrors of birth, of old age, of sickness, of death and rebirth, of all kinds of moral offence, of all states of woe, of the whole cycle of birth-and-death from all these ... relationships of interdependence and dependence have moral corollaries, requiring on the part of humans due regard for the rights of nature, understood in light of the rights and purposes of God Animals, ... and his hope of mitigating the suffering of animals at the hands of human beings (Haq 147) Hadith reveal Mohammed wiping the mouth of his horse with his own personal cloth Portions of Hadith containing...
... lives as more valuable from our point of view than the lives of mice from the points of view of the mice” or that of a puffin’s life from the point of view of a puffin (Vilkka 43) But we Other creatures ... continuation of hunted species—never mind the passing of the overhunted dodo bird from Mauritius (an Island east of Madagascar), the disappearance of the vast herds of buffalo from the Great Plains of the ... pain of the parents, and of the families of other babies that might have been saved with Baby Theresa’s body parts, for the sake of preserving her life for as long as possible Both plants and animals...
... suffering and the use of chemicals Diet The number of animals killed for fur in the U.S each year is approximately equal to the human population of Illinois The number of animals killed for experimentation ... The Animal Welfare Institute, fighting to keep these elephants out of Western zoos, notes that elephants, one of the longest-lived animals in the wilds, not live long in captivity due to lack of ... journalist who wrote Animal Underworld, documented zoos “looking to rid themselves of six hundred mammals, nearly four hundred reptiles, thousands of fish, hundreds of birds, and a variety of invertebrates”...
... interests of, 45 liberation of, 8, 281 morality of, 44, 84, 85 nonhuman, 10 other-than-human, 10 rights of, 7, 91, 93, 94 social behavior of, 83 superior to humans, 73 treatment of, 34 welfare of, ... Prentice-Hall, 1976 148–62 —— Animal Liberation 2nd ed London: Thorsons, 1991 —— Animal Liberation or Animal Rights?” Monist 70 (1987): 3–14 —— “Animals and the Value of Life.” Matters of Life and Death ... (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) Norfolk: PETA, 2005 “Curiosity Is Killing These Cats.” Pamphlet In Defense of Animals Mill Valley: In Defense of Animals No date Curtin, Deane “Dogen,...
... evaluate the impact of traffic intensity on migration and mortality of animals): (a) gaps of more than 10 s (coefficient 1); (b) gaps of more than 15 s (coefficient 1.5); (c) gaps of more than 20 ... statistics not distinguish different types of game, therefore deaths of different kinds of animals have been summarized into one category (mortality of animals on motorway D1) Due to the fact that ... Mortality of the animals was examined by combining several methods Due to cooperation with the Directorate of Roads and Highways were data taken from their records, furthermore, carcasses of animals...
... parallel-group, 13-week studiesof patients with OA of the knee and of identical design was conducted Methodology for the studies has previously been described elsewhere in detail [6,7] and both studies were ... provides an evaluation not only of the concept of 'feeling good' but also of 'feeling good as soon as possible.' Time taken to achieve sustained satisfaction combines the concept of 'feeling ... assessment of disease activity, and the WOMAC™ questionnaire total score) [6,7] Here, we report on a pooled analysis of the above two studies This analysis evaluated the effectiveness of lumiracoxib...
... volume of all animals per group was > 0.5 cm3 for imatinib alone and nilotinib alone, and < 0.5 cm3 for the combinations and for everolimus alone Page of Figure Tumor volume of the same animal ... activity and safety profile of this drug and its role in the treatment of GIST patients When these data are available, an interesting clinical evaluation may focus on the combination of nilotinib with ... Stroobants S, Mortelmans L, Schoffski P, Van Oostrerom A: Establishment of a mouse gastrointestinal stromal tumor model and evaluationof response to imatinib by small animal positron emission tomography...
... antinociceptive effects of a single injection of HA preparations in individual animals In previous studies the antinociceptive effects of a HA preparation were assessed for a maximum of 96 hours, and ... antinociceptive effects of HA rather than to disease modification Finally, the protocol of repetitive induction of short-lasting pain states limits suffering of experimental animals Pain is totally ... attenuated decrease of MTs upon bradykinin/PGE2 injections and in a normalization of the weight shift seen in saline-treated control animals The antinociceptive effects of doses of 50 to 100 μl were...
... amount of sequence but, for the platforms that produce short-sequence reads, greater than half of this sequence is not usable On average, 55% of the Illumina GA reads pass quality filters, of which ... region of chromosome 11 amplified by three long-range PCR products (red rectangles) (b) A heat-map colored matrix displays the coefficient of correlation of coverage across the entire 260 kb of analyzed ... indicative of the real performance of NGS platforms for de novo detection of variants in human sequences Interestingly, our analysis indicates that ABI Sanger has a false negative rate of approximately...
... Figure 8: Illustration of EOF inside a fused silica capillary 22 Figure 9: Illustration of the order of migration of ions in CE 22 Figure 10 Illustration of EOF profile 23 Figure ... (PUB) of Singapore’s national water agency, for their assistance in the collection of the water samples, Professor Hanry Yu and Ms Teo Siow Thing of Department of Physiology NUS for provision of ... INVESTIGATION OF MICROCYSTIN TOXICITY 84 4.0 Development of Metabolomics Approaches for the Investigation of the Effect of Exposure of a Human Cell Line to Non Cytotoxic Amounts of Microcystins...
... need IV TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE PAGE I DEDICATION II ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS III TABLE OF CONTENTS V SUMMARY XII LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS XVIII LIST OF TABLES XXII LIST OF FIGURES XXIV LIST OF APPENDICES ... severity of the autoimmune disease increased with the age of the mice, with the majority of the untreated and DMSO control mice dying of renal failure at 16-24 weeks of age Treatment of the MRL-lpr/lpr ... fractionation of CMX-13’ RP-HPLC Chromatogram of CMX-13’ RP-HPLC Chromatogram of CMX-13 Immunosuppression of PHA+PBMCs by subfractions of CMX-13 after RP-HPLC RP-HPLC Chromatogram of CMX-13-1 Retention...
... presentations iii Table of contents v Summary ix List of tables xi List of figures xiii List of abbreviations xvi Chapter 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Introduction Herbal medicines 1.1.1 Importance of herbal medicines ... 6.5 Effects of extracts of various Panax species on PT and APTT of human blood plasma in vitro (n≥3) 173 Table 6.6 Effects of fractions from steamed P notoginseng on PT and APTT of human blood ... medicines are often taken complementarily with therapeutic drugs, drug-herb interactions have been a major safety concern, especially when healthcare professionals are often unaware of the type of herbal...
... (B.Sc (Hons), University of Malaya) (M.Sc National University of Malaysia) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARMENT OF CHEMISTRY NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 2005 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ... stereochemistries of C4 and C5 In our group, we have been working on the synthesis of the isomers of C4 and C5 as NOE studiesof large rings is known to be unreliable.9 Later, the NMR data of the synthetic ... cultures of rat cerebellar granule cells In the latter study, morphological evidences of antillatoxininduced neurotoxicities included swelling of neuronal somata, thinning of neurites, and blebbing of...
... properties of semipermeable membranes, physiological condition of the organism, physical characteristics of the environment, kind and amount of food, level of its contamination, kind of organisms ... and type of pollutants Effective accumulators of pollutants are mollusks, often applied as bioindicators of water pollution with heavy metals [55,56] The properties of some populations of these ... selectivity of biosensors enables toxicant determination at a level of trace and ultratrace [24] Receptor-based biosensors acquire selectivity as a result of natural affinity of the properties of proteins...