Return to My Library Search History Primary Sources My Library Statistics Logout More Search Advanced Search Home Issues Maps Resources Using Monkeys in Medical Experimentation Is Justifiable Animal Experimentation ‚ 2009 Tools Bookmark Share Citation Tools Print "Hot Science: Monkeys and Brain Research‚" RDS (Research Defence Society)‚ www.rds-online.org.uk‚ accessed June 23‚ 2008. Reproduced by permission. The Research Defence Society (RDS) is the UK organization
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burn these books in order to get rid of them and any knowledge that they hold. In addition‚ government in Fahrenheit 451 has mechanical hounds‚ ¨...now it was sleeping the evil out of itself...while a four inch hollow needle plunged down from the proboscis of the Hound to inject massive jolts of morphine or procaine¨ (Bradbury 22). The mechanical hounds are used to prevent society from owning books. It will inject drugs into anyone seen as a threat‚ having no emotion because it is preprogrammed to
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Experiments such as Harlow’s monkey study of 1958 is a weakness of the Learning theory as it opposes the idea of learning theory as an explanation of attachment. Harlow’s monkey study saw how monkeys reacted to replacement mothers depending on their material (cloth or wire). Learning theory suggests that the monkey should’ve spent more time on the mother that gave them food (the wire monkey)‚ however the monkey would spend the majority of his time on the comfort monkey (the cloth monkey). This decreases the
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Both Jin Wang and The Monkey King were in situations where they change something about them because of what other people thought about them. In the end‚ these changes ended up hurting them. Gene Luen Yang uses some of the ethical decisions made in this story and changes some of the story line to relate to this overall theme. The ethical decisions made by these two characters all have to do with them changing something about them. One of the many ethical conflicts The Monkey King encountered that
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Zone is a best-selling 1994 non-fiction bio-thriller by Richard Preston about the origins and incidents involving viral hemorrhagic fevers‚ particularly Ebola viruses and Marburg viruses. This book is based upon an outbreak of the Ebola virus in a monkey house located in the Washington‚ D.C. suburb of Reston‚ Virginia. The author weaves together the tales of several previous outbreaks in Africa to describe clearly the potential damage such an outbreak could cause. The first appearance of an Ebola-like
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through studies of social behavior of monkeys. Theory His theory hinged on the universal need for contact. Harlow’s famous wire/cloth "mother" monkey studies demonstrated that the need for affection created a stronger bond between mother and infant than did physical needs (food). Experiment He separated baby monkeys from their mothers and used a wire mother- covered in soft cloth- with a nipple with milk- as a mother substitute for the baby. One day a baby monkey took a poop on the fake mother and
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Parma‚ Italy‚ a lab monkey awaited its researchers’ return from lunch. The researchers had implanted wires next to its motor cortex‚ in a frontal lobe brain region that enabled the monkey to plan and enact movements. The monitoring device would alert the researchers to activity in that region of the monkey’s brain. When the monkey moved a peanut into its mouth‚ for example‚ the device would buzz. That day‚ as one of the researchers entered the lab‚ ice cream cone in hand‚ the monkey stared at him. As
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of a monkey!” and only a few days later his wife gave birth to a monkey. The father was so much mortified that he wanted to kill his son; but finally his better reason prevailed‚ and he spared the child. He said to himself‚ “It is my fault‚ I know; but I uttered that invocation without thinking.” So‚ instead of putting the monkey to death‚ the couple just hid it from visitors; and whenever any one asked for the child‚ they merely answered‚ “Oh‚ he died long ago.” The time came when the monkey grew
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GOAL Harry Harlow‚ an American Psychologist‚ was developing the Wisconsin General Testing Apparatus to study aspects of mental processes of primates. As he developed his tests‚ he realized the monkeys he was working with were “learning new strategies around his initial tests” (article 2). Harlow was very confused as to why this was occurring‚ so he decided to study developing primates away from their biological mothers in a nursing setting and examine the premature behaviors and relationships
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