Jessica du Toit
Biographic Data
| ID | 6717770 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica du Toit |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica |
| FAMILY NAME | du Toit |
| SIGNATURE | DU TOIT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cumulative effect assessment in the marine environment
Emotional support animals are not like prosthetics
Sara Kolmes has argued that the human ‘handlers’ of emotional support animals (ESAs) should have the sorts of body-like rights to those animals that people with prosthetics have to their prosthetics. In support of this conclusion, she argues that ESAs both function and feel like prosthetics, and that the disanalogies between ESAs and prosthetics are irrelevant to whether humans can have body-like rights to their ESAs. In response, we argue that M…
In the name of science
BACKGROUND: The practice of giving animal research subjects proper names is frowned on by the academic scientific community. While researchers provide a number of reasons for desisting from giving their animal subjects proper names, the most common are that (1) naming leads to anthropomorphising which, in turn, leads to data and results that are unobjective and invalid; and (2) while naming does not necessarily entail some mistake on the research…
In the name of science
BACKGROUND: The practice of giving animal research subjects proper names is frowned on by the academic scientific community. While researchers provide a number of reasons for desisting from giving their animal subjects proper names, the most common are that (1) naming leads to anthropomorphising which, in turn, leads to data and results that are unobjective and invalid; and (2) while naming does not necessarily entail some mistake on the research…
Emotional support animals are not like prosthetics
Sara Kolmes has argued that the human ‘handlers’ of emotional support animals (ESAs) should have the sorts of body-like rights to those animals that people with prosthetics have to their prosthetics. In support of this conclusion, she argues that ESAs both function and feel like prosthetics, and that the disanalogies between ESAs and prosthetics are irrelevant to whether humans can have body-like rights to their ESAs. In response, we argue that M…
Cumulative effect assessment in the marine environment
Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Animal cognition (1 work) · Animal testing and alternatives (1 work) · Animal welfare (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (1 work)