In an age when doping was almost a way of life it was only a short step from the poisoning of man to the poisoning of animals. In classical antiquity there are examples of both doping to win and doping to lose. Diomedes, the son of Aries and Cyrene, fed his horses on human flesh to make them savage and unbeatable, while Medea used an opiate to stupefy the dragon that guarded the Golden Fleece. ...

In her article "Rewriting Space in Ruiz de Burton's Who Would Have Thought It?" Bernadine M. Hernandez analyses María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's text in the context of Mexican American and US-American literary history. In her novel published in 1872, Ruiz de Burton creates a space of racial and class difference that is a direct response to Mexicano displacement after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalg...

during the 1960s, the relatively new approaches like environmental warfare and intentional environmental deterioration came in to the global security and strategic literature. till now, through different conventional and unconventional wars, the governments have imposed intentional and unintentional adverse effects on the environment some of which are lasting for decades. the application of wea...

In a crisis, you need triage. The term was widely used in the first world war for sorting wounded soldiers into groups, according to severity of their injuries. It meant prioritising those who would benefit most from early treatment, ahead casualties were unlikely survive and whose wounds less serious could be treated later. Outside warfare process is wherever medical needs exceed available cap...

This paper continues the debate between myselfand Peter Singer et al started in the Journal of Medical Ethics volume 21, no 3 about the ethical respectability of the use of QALYs in health care allocation. It discusses the question of what, in the way of health care provision, would be chosen by rational egoists behind a Rawlsian "veil of ignorance", and takes forward the vexed question of what...

The calcium and phosphorus nutrition of thoroughbred racehorses was assessed by analysis of serum and urine samples collected from 90 horses in 1975 and 139 horses in 1980-81 at racetracks in Melbourne. Horses that were excreting greater than 15 mumole Ca/mosmole and which had a calcium to creatinine clearance ratio greater tha 2.5% were considered to have adequate Ca intake. Horses that were e...