Applying Utilitarianism Flashcards
Dissection?
Cutting open a dead body (often of an animal) to investigate its parts
Vivisection?
Performing operations on live animals for the purpose of experimentation or scientific research
Xenotransplantation?
Using genetically altered animal organs bread for transplantation into other species ie human beings
Animal use?
How humans use animals- to eat, sport, to work
Animal protection?
Laws and protections to control animal experiments and ensured they are treated with dignity
Animal welfare?
Work supporting the rights of animal to be free from abuse and looked after RSPCA
Animal reform?
Work of people who try to change laws about animal experiments, use of animals in sport
Animal liberation?
Groups which have used acts of terrorism to free animals from abuse
Animal control?
Support the use of animals in extreme sports like fox hunting, animals are here for our pleasure
Claudius Galen?
Greek physical who used dissection and vivisection to try and understand how different organs worked
William Harvey?
16th century English physician who found out how blood circulates around the body by analysing a dissected pig
Peter Singer?
Modern utilitarian philosopher who coined the term speciesim, to describe the discrimination of prioritising one species (our own) over others
Tom Regan?
Another contemporary thinker who also agrees with singer and says animals should have the same rights as humans.
Animal Aid?
A charity that promotes animal welfare and argues against the use of animals for medical research
Understanding animal research?
A not for profit organisation that explains why animals are used in scientific and medical research
Atomic bomb?
A bomb which derives its destructive power from the rapid release of nuclear energy
WMD?
Weapons of mass destruction, which can cause widespread destruction to human beings and their environment.
Detterent?
A nuclear weapon which is kept as a threat to aggressors
Deterrence theory?
The theory that possessing nuclear weapons will dissuade an enemy from iniaiting an attack
CND?
Campaign for nuclear disarmament- a pressure group which try to persuade the government to dismantle their nuclear arsenals.
Ministry of defence?
British government responsible for national security and for implementing the national defence policy
Trident?
Name of Britains nuclear deterrent weapons, consists of 4 submarines each carrying 16 missiles and each missile has 8 nuclear warheads
