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Covid-19: How Industrial Animal Agriculture Fuels Pandemics
The battle against the Coronavirus pandemic is without doubt the biggest global crisis in a lifetime. Could it be that the way we now produce so much of our food worldwide is already brewing up the next one?
Philip Lymbery
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Background Evidence suggests improvement in nursing staff satisfaction, competence, and retention after implementation of evidence-based mentorship programmes.
Alma Arshad Hookmani +6 more
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Defining and Exploring Animal Sentience
One of the commentaries on the target article notes that "animal sentience" is difficult to define operationally. This response to the commentaries develops a working, usable definition of animal sentience and examines the relationships between animal ...
Andrew N Rowan +3 more
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The term 'compassion' has been much used and little discussed. I argue that compassion is a virtue in the Aristotelian sense, one of a family of other-regarding properties and belongs to the affective qualities of a moral agent. Its exercise is an essential component of good medical care in many situations and requires grounding in moral principles ...
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A preliminary investigation into the welfare of lobsters in the UK
The welfare of invertebrates is overlooked and their needs are not understood. It is assumed that they do not experience pain and suffering. Studies on decapod crustaceans challenge this assumption.
Gemma Carder
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Practicing mindfulness in addressing the biodiversity crisis
In an era of climate change, biodiversity loss, and a global pandemic, many scientists have experienced grief, anxiety, and despair as they face ongoing ecological challenges.
Leah R. Gerber +5 more
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Animal sentience: history, science, and politics
This target article has three parts. The first briefly reviews the thinking about nonhuman animals’ sentience in the Western canon: what we might know about their capacity for feeling, leading up to Bentham’s famous question “can they suffer?” The second
Andrew N Rowan +3 more
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A qualitative study of counsellors’ experience of compassion fatigue [PDF]
According to Figley (1995) there is a cost to caring and professional carers who listen to the traumatic accounts of others’ emotional pain and suffering may feel similar suffering.
Lowther, Marilyn L.
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Background Telehealth technologies are now featured more prominently in addiction treatment services than prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, but system barriers should be carefully considered for the successful implementation of innovative remote solutions ...
Amanda Sharp +7 more
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The Science of Compassion [PDF]
I recently met an anaesthetist called Robin Youngson who has had a most unusual career. He was brought up in various parts of the British Empire, as what he describes as an ‘army brat’. He went to an English boarding school where he was badly bullied, before going to university and becoming an engineer.
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