: Slavery . Stanley M. Elkins.

Reply to J M Stanley: fiddling and clarity.

The author responds to John M. Stanley's criticism ("More fiddling with the definition of death?" Journal of Medical Ethics 1987 Mar; 13(1): 21-22) and clarifies the arguments in his own previous article ("Why let people die?" Journal of Medical Ethics 1986 Jun; 12(2): 83-86). Gillett contends that we must decide what ethical stance we should adopt toward the living but nonsentient, devoid of ...

Slavery driven

Most historians and biologists have come to Darwin through his book, On the Origin of Species. They have been curious about his biological life before this ground-breaking book and how he developed his ideas. They have had rich pickings; Darwin was an affluent middle-class Englishman with powerful connections and he was an enthusiastic correspondent. Adrian Desmond and James Moore have publishe...

Weather and bird migration Norman Elkins

© British Birds 98 • May 2005 • 238-256 ABSTRACT Bird migration in and through Britain and Ireland shows great variation, both seasonally and annually. Much depends on atmospheric conditions, which can equally hinder and assist migration, both on a broad scale (the distribution, extent, intensity and movement of pressure patterns), and at a local level (temporal and spatial changes in wind, vis...

Treponematosis and African Slavery.

The so-called unitarian (or unicist) concept of treponematosis emphasizes the evolutionary relationship of yaws, pinta, endemic syphilis, and sporadic syphilis, regarding them all as varieties or syndromes of one disease caused by one parasite, Treponema pallidum (Hudson, 1946). The unitarian view accepts the fact that there is no known test by which the parasites of these treponemal infections...

Slavery in Puerto Rico