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The Need To Include Animal Protection In Public Health Policies, Aysha Akhtar Nov 2013

The Need To Include Animal Protection In Public Health Policies, Aysha Akhtar

Animal Welfare Collection

Many critical public health issues require non-traditional approaches. Although many novel strategies are used, one approach not widely applied involves improving the treatment of animals. Emerging infectious diseases are pressing public health challenges that could benefit from improving the treatment of animals. Other human health issues, that overlap with animal treatment issues, and that warrant further exploration, are medical research and domestic violence. The diverse nature of these health issues and their connection with animal treatment suggest that there may be other similar intersections. Public health would benefit by including the treatment of animals as a topic of study and …


'Lactilla Tends Her Fav'rite Cow': Ecocritical Readings Of Animals And Women In Eighteenth-Century British Labouring-Class Women's Poetry By Anne Milne, Dometa Wiegand May 2013

'Lactilla Tends Her Fav'rite Cow': Ecocritical Readings Of Animals And Women In Eighteenth-Century British Labouring-Class Women's Poetry By Anne Milne, Dometa Wiegand

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830

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Not Shut In By Any Fence, Anna Bullock Brown May 2013

Not Shut In By Any Fence, Anna Bullock Brown

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

From their beginning in the mid-l 800s, zoos ( or zoological gardens as they were first known) were meant for both research and education. They offered viewers the opportunity to see animals that they otherwise would never have seen. These animals were kept in cages to protect the zoo-goers. The history of zoos demonstrates a conflicting desire between our human need to connect with animals as well as our fear (literal and metaphoric) of what that connection might mean. Informing this creative project are three main areas of research: primary research in the form of interview, place-based research conducted at …


Westray, Wilbur Morgan, Sr., 1921-2000 (Sc 965), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Westray, Wilbur Morgan, Sr., 1921-2000 (Sc 965), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 965. Paper (22 p.) titled “My Early Life [,] 1921-1939” written by Wilbur Morgan Westray, Sr. Westray recounts life as he experienced it growing up in Louisville, Kentucky. Also includes associated genealogical data.


Animals, Maria Alicia Gomez Jan 2013

Animals, Maria Alicia Gomez

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Animals tells the stories of various characters and their lives within the neighborhood of Shadow and Anima Streets. The novel is structured in fragments that cycle through multiple characters from the local bar owner, to the homeless men roaming the alleys, a horse that befriends and old blind widow, a lion that roams the streets and a woman who slowly turns to stone. The novel treats themes of friendship, isolation, and community.