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How were non-human animals treated in the Classical world, and how
did ancient authors record their responses to animals in Greek and
Roman life? The civilisations of Greece and Rome left detailed
records of their experience and opinions of animals: in these
societies, which practised mass sacrifice and large-scale public
animal hunts, as well as being economically reliant on animal power
and products, how were animals actually treated and how was it
acceptable to treat them?
This sourcebook presents specially-prepared translations from Greek
and Latin texts across several genres which give a wide-reaching
sense of the place of the non-human animal in the moral register of
Classical Greece and Rome. From theories of the origins of animal
life and vegetarianism, literary uses of animal imagery and its
role in formulating cultural identity, to vivid descriptions of
vivisection, force-feeding, intensive farming, agricultural and
military exploitation, and detailed accounts of animal-hunting and
the trade in exotic animal products: the battleground of the modern
animal rights debate is here given its historical foundation in a
selection of nearly 200 passages of Classical authors from Homer to
Porphyry.
This sourcebook presents nearly 200 specially-translated Greek and
Roman texts from Homer to Plutarch, revealing the place of the
animal in the moral consciousness of the Classical era.
Philosophical, historical, dramatic and poetic texts explore how
animals were regarded in all aspects of ancient life, from
philosophy to farming.
Society was not prepared in 1981 for the appearance of a new
infectious disease, but we have since learned that emerging and
reemerging diseases will continue to challenge humanity. "AIDS at
30" is the first history of HIV/AIDS written for a general audience
that emphasizes the medical response to the epidemic.Award-winning
medical historian Victoria A. Harden approaches the AIDS virus from
philosophical and intellectual perspectives in the history of
medical science, discussing the process of scientific discovery,
scientific evidence, and how laboratories found the cause of AIDS
and developed therapeutic interventions. Similarly, her book places
AIDS as the first infectious disease to be recognized
simultaneously worldwide as a single phenomenon.After years of
believing that vaccines and antibiotics would keep deadly epidemics
away, researchers, doctors, patients, and the public were forced to
abandon the arrogant assumption that they had conquered infectious
diseases. By presenting an accessible discussion of the history of
HIV/AIDS and analyzing how aspects of society advanced or hindered
the response to the disease, "AIDS at 30" illustrates for both
medical professionals and general readers how medicine identifies
and evaluates new infectious diseases quickly and what political
and cultural factors limit the medical community s response.
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