ANIMAL ETHICS AND POLITICS BEYOND THE SOCIAL CONTRACT

Animal Ethics and Politics Beyond the Social Contract

This paper is divided into three sections.First, I describe the wide plurality of views on issues of animal ethics, showing that our disagreements here are deep and profound.This fact of reasonable pluralism about animal ethics presents a political problem.According to the dominant liberal tradition of political philosophy, it is impermissible for

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Mitral valve with a single leaflet

Congenital anomalies of the mitral valve apparatus are rare.Of such cases, congenital click here mitral stenosis, atresia, accessory valvular tissue, and cleft mitral valve are more common.Descriptions of unileaflet mitral valves (either partial or complete leaflet agenesis/hypoplasia) are extremely rare and largely limited to a few case reports.We

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