Vivisection
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The greatest cause of human disease is human culture, and the solution is to change that culture and the way we live. It has nothing to do with animals. A medical industry dedicated to animal research is corrupted by cruelty and cannot be... more
Ho scritto la mia tesi sulla protezione dei diritti animali nella giurisprudenza Americana, analizzando l'emergenza e lo sviluppo dei diritti animali nell'Unione Europea e negli Stati Uniti. Nello specifico, ho esaminato la relazione tra... more
This was the paper presented in Oxford, England, in 2015 at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and published in Quranicosmos journal, Volume 1, Issue 1, August 2017. Masri's original book - Animals in Islam - now out of print has been... more
"Lace-making" and issuization of vivisection in Lewis Carroll's and Henry Holiday's "The Hunting of the Snark". --- Appendix: Lewis Carroll, “Some Popular Fallacies About Vivisection”, Fortnightly Review 17 (1875 Jun), 847-854 See also:... more
Brano inedito, originalmente pensato come apparato critico di "Contro la vivisezione" di Lewis Carrol.
Animal experimentation is a contentious ethical issue. In many countries, the debate over the morality of animal research has led to the institution of ethical review systems for animal experiments. This article discusses and... more
The paper argues that animal experimentation in Indian laboratories needs to be seen within a context in which Indian animals became subjects and resources of the British Empire. The process was a complex one, since debates about animal... more
In the framework of contemporary ecocritical and posthumanist theories, this comparative analysis of works by Paolo Mantegazza, Ouida, and Vernon Lee focuses on the conflictual relationship of proximity and differentiation at stake in the... more
Efforts to advance our understanding of neurodegenerative diseases involve the creation chi-meric organisms from human neural stem cells and primate embryos-known as prenatal chimeras. The existence of potential mentally complex beings... more
This article attempts to create a portrait of ‘Annie Ernaux’ in 1989, by examining her acts of self-portrayal in that year in Se perdre, Journal du dehors, L'Atelier noir and Passion simple. It describes and analyses her practice of a... more
In a period of Ptolemaic Alexandria that has been referred to by modern scholars as a "frontier environment" for scientific achievement and discoveries, Herophilus of Chalcedon was a leader of innovation. Religious and cultural boundaries... more
Animal as a sign. Interpretation of cultural codes. 2011.
In 1952, the University of Michigan physiologist Robert Gesell shocked his colleagues at the business meeting of the American Physiological Society by reading a prepared statement in which he claimed that some of the animal... more
In 1906, anti-vivisection campaigners unveiled a memorial in Battersea, London, as a new weapon in their long-running propaganda war. A celebrated libel trial focused attention on the plight of one brown terrier dog, the subject of... more
Animal research or animal testing is done worldwide, where vertebrate animals, from zebrafish to non-human primates, millions in number are used annually. The practice is regulated to various degrees in different countries. Scientists and... more
In 1952, the University of Michigan physiologist Robert Gesell shocked his colleagues at the business meeting of the American Physiological Society by reading a prepared statement in which he claimed that some of the animal... more
Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species (1859) inaugurated a kinship relation between the traditionally distinct categories of human and animal, engendering new possibilities for cross-species empathy while also provoking anxiety about the... more
In this essay I investigate Schopenhauer's position on the ethics of animal experiments. I argue that both his analysis of the dangers involved in performing vivisection on a wide scale and the guidelines he suggested in order to... more
Colaboración breve para el diario Cambio de Michoacán donde comento la necesidad de revisar qué se aprende con la vivisección en nivel de educación media superior y superior, de manera implícita y colateral a los propósitos explícitos en... more
Afterword, The Educational Significance of Human and Non-human Animal Interactions: Blurring the Species Line by Suzanne Rice and A. G. Rud, eds., Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
The new Appendix A of the European Convention for the Protection of Vertebrate Animals Used for Experimental and Other Scientific Purposes, which gives guidelines for accommodation and care of animals and was approved on June 15, 2006,... more
This paper traces the way in which the debate on vivisection which took place in the 1870’s led to strong reactions at the traditionally peaceful Metaphysical Society (1869-1880). In June 1875, one of the members, Lord Arthur Russell... more