Wednesday, 2 October 2019

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Vonnegut

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelda_Fitzgerald

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound

special authority in HIPAA law that allows for public health to do its job

special authority in HIPAA law that allows for public health to do its job

but if we are so tied to privacy that we cannot protect the collective. it is about sharing information. there has been a very big move about sharing information---that is how we learn to take care of one another

ethics and integrity at ohsu?

protocols approved by IRC review board
community member

for what is going on

they all have a conflict of interest
helps as a cap

nonscientist

that consent forms
make sense to a non-scientist

compensation it is not unethical to pay someone

acc to IRB

too much is coercive
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_review_board

lots of impovrished people on medicare or medicaid
come to OHSU for studies

cosmetic procedure in beverly hills

what are you sking a subject to do

simple blood draw
50$ for blood
not coercive

500$ would be
dependent

craigslist

upper income bracket sliding scale

study the rich!!!

socioeconomic levels

IVF fertility
underpaid

6 yrs

undue inducement
http://www.einstein.yu.edu/retp/rmacklin/index%201.htm

hazardous to women

the nobel prize today
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2010/1004/Nobel-Prize-for-Robert-Edwards-the-controversies-behind-IVF

washington universitytissue samples
washington university purposes

the patients no longer had right to

nobody is talking about anarchy power or property rights
or rights theory

common rule
ethical vacuum.

regents cell line from a sample

commercialization

intellectual property of subjects

board of regents case

UCLA follow up care
no opportunity to say no.

the immortal life of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks

times literary supp

opp view

very interesting to speak to the grey suited primate researcher
http://www.ogi.edu/people/dsp_person.cfm?person_id=CD827366-C6E9-3624-37BEE5A0C637B0A9

he didnt know about the seroquel lawsuit

literally a primate surgeon specialist working on sedated macaques.
hmm

Tuesday, 30 November 2010

ethical whitewash

Mary Eng

Biomedical Ethics

Patricia Backlar

November 17, 2010

Pharmaceutical Illusions: Psychotropic Medications, Human HealthRisk, and Industry

Propaganda

It is easy to accept certain systems because they have always been so. But in the history

of the progress of humanity towards better ways, certain individuals or groups have dared to

question what was widely accepted by the masses. The history of western medicine is now

barely ascending from its origins in bloodletting and other medieval practices. It is important to

look towards the reformers, who assess systems and work for change.

Dorthea Dix was one such individual. She saw the barbarity of the mental health systems

as an integrative failure towards human rights. Her way in towards changing the industry was

fraught with resitance an status quo complacency. Psychiatry, especially, of all health fields is

fraught with problems. It was not long ago that homosexuality was considered a mental illness

by the canonical psychiatric establishment. It would be curious to wonder as well, how many

individuals are persecuted within psychiatry because of the perceived wrongness of their gender

expression. Homosexuals are known to be victims of hate crime and hate speech, and to find

discrimination in housing work and school. And so if a disproportionate number of homosexuals

seek psychiatric care, to what extent are they treated sympathetically by a professional

community who’s diagnostic manual recently treated their gender expression as an “illness.”

It would be hard to repair the trust in a group that would so powerfully enact persecution on a

group in the name of “science” or “medicine.”

There is in fact an Anti-psychiatry movement with a logical questioning of why psychiatry

is even allowed to call themselves “medicine.” The modern day asylum is housed in

a “hospital” but the validity of this is also under question. As psychiatric expression embraced a

pharmacopeia of medicines and treatments in the last 50 years, it might be important to chart the

ethical issues at play with psychiatric medicinalization of human experience.

Historical methods of treatment included insulin shock therapy, involving an injection of

insulin so strong as to induce a diabetic coma. This practice was used on the writer Antaonin

Artaud. It was significantly disturbing for him that he wrote extensively on the plight of creative

people stigmatized by the psychiatric industry, which seems to value a unified monocultural

human expression, such that anything outside of an accepted norm, might be electroshocked or

treated. He criticized the role of Vincent Van Gogh’s doctor in treating the artist to the point of

suicide. Indeed in our modern day experience, many psychotropic drugs generally recognized

as safe and approved for human use have shown to increase the risk of self harm. Paxil has a

notorious rap for inducing depressed patients to kill themselves, and indeed my family lost a dear

friend when her doctor switched her meds. She killed herself within two weeks. Even as such

risks were known and discussed in the pop-science press, the propaganda waged to buttress the

psychopharmatherapeutic inroads on consciousness continued.

The late nineties were filled with industrial advertising ad magazine placement. Eli Lily’s

ubiquitous prozac was recommended for everything from bulimia to weight loss. Cosmetic

applications were touted. Even your pets were the subjescts of the marketing assault: “Is your

dog depressed?”

It is important to see the pharmaceutical industry’s expanses beyond psychiatry.

Vaccine approvals often seem motivated from on high

to note the perpetuation of

minimization Of Side Effects as industry standard? To what extent are our bodies capital which

face destruction, or crime scenes, or reservoirs of bioaccumulated pharmaceutical residue,

especially as drinking water becomes infected . . .

Hypocratic Oath is violated in the non-consensual poisoning of our environment, with

psychotropic toxicities . . .

Human beings are essentially subject to industry trials, leading to recalls, lawsuits, settlements,

irrevocable damage to human health.

We are essentially in a replication of Tuskeegee mentalities, when drugs generally recognized

as safe are introduced on to the public market after ineffective testing on the animal model, in

such archaic tortures as primate testing at OHSU and many other notable government subsidized

health institutes globally, giving a false whitewash of health to human subject/consumers who

then absorb the negative repercussions.

The legal consumer safety and medical malpractice industries can at times gain significant

ground towards instilling industry accountability, and with the collaboration of industry expose’s

such as launched by the campaign for safe cosmetics and wikileaks WHO document disclosure,

we are able to see more clearly what has transpired over the last 100 years in modern health

manufacture.

international approaches might compare regualtory policies to find significant gains for human

health, where superior vaccines were used in Japan, and american market vaccines had provable

inferiority and mortality probability, misdiagnosed as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, to protect

regulatory and industry malfeasance.

A lawsuit is a worst case scenario approach to human health protection.

http://ftp.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F3/9/9.F3d.958.92-5089.html

The clinic, in it absolutions

http://www.scribd.com/doc/27287460/Placebos-of-Development-A-Critique-of-Modern

might sanitize our critique or dissolve our ability towards dissent through numbing, narcotizing,

effects and side effects---which may even be deadly, the legal industries which might gain

monetary or publicity coup for the effectivity of the poisons, are merely a necrophiliac industry,

funereal in process.

Significant suicides after the ingestion of Paxil.

Who can buy back a human life?

Heroin as a development of Bayer aspirin company.

Nazis in South America, resanitizing their pharmaceutical approach towards civilization, ala

mengele and eichmann.

Irreparable tardive diskenisia.

Seroquel induced diabetes.

Imperfections of Pharma R&D and development, concurrent with the devastation of rainforest

botanical wealth.

Grand Mal fatal seizures associated with “anti-psychotics” as epilepsy drugs reformulated.

What are the direct threats to the mechanism nationally and internationally?

Tardive Diskinesia---what is it

Grand Mal seizure with the introduction of epilepcy medication to non-epileptics, effectively

inducing epilepsy and putting at risk of Grand Mal seizure

weight gain lithium

Acedia

Suicide Risk

Diabetes

Reduced Libido

Old industry standby

Prior methods Insulin shock

lobotomy

Political motive: suppression of dissent within a culture

Pioneers: Dorthea Dix

Wikileaks world stage exposure of corruption in WHO and Pharma development. Very modern

zeitgeist shift towards total accountability all the time.

Pirate Party traction internationally with an explicitly anti-patent approach contradictory towards

cosmetic western drug manufacture, rebranding as de facto patent extension, the maginalization

of significant medical issues, such that pharma a a racistly genocidal impact with focus towards

botox and pet-prozac and de-emphasis on AIDS, malaria, family planning, etc

ie things that matter!

profit

Scholarship.

Scientology. origins of anti-psychiatry method---truth contained therein, despite the obvious

labor law and forced abortion breaches of human dignity.

history: gurneys, straightjackets, rubber rooms, chemical lobotomy.

worthy of discussion.

repression of dissent.

Natural Approaches: herbal therapy, massage, acupuncture, polyphasic medicinal states, peyote

etc.

Industry research towards the mechanism

homocysteine regulation

Pub med

toxic effects of heightened homocysteine build-up in the brain.

overarching point is that the true progress of science at times can be held back by industry

interests based on market hegemony and monopol.

The disruption of this mechanism must see courageous researchers who are not beholden to

Pharma or patent law or paywalls of any kind as they impede the flow of science. Evidence

of spirit change within the system can be seen in New Renaissance ideals as they unfold in

collaborative spaces such as wikipedia, where knowledge for knowledge’s sake is an actual

value, independent of financial protocols.

Similarly over the past few years i have seen significant leaking of data from confidencial

scientific studies onto The Pirate Bay.

The shift towards many economies have effectively created many darknets or black economies

where knowledge is transacted independent of the

corrupt doctors receiving industry kickbacks

as foucault wrote in madness and civilization, it was through calling others mad that one got a

sense of one’s own “sanity” in opposition, as the sanity continuum holds value for the criminal

justice systems, we must be unafraid to look at psychiatry as a part of a larger military industrial

complex which operates to express racist motive and to protect capitalisms many expressions.

So in giving validity to the excessive tarnishing of your son’s good name in the place of

confidentiality, respect, for his unique mind, creativity and experience, you lay plain for all to

see the lack of respect you have for him and for the trafficked macaques who your friends so

proudly torture. Let their sorrow give you nightmares, as they banged on the cage for freedom,

in an image haunting me to my grave, or forced electrocution for ejaculate were a videorecored

perversion of the oregon health sciences university culture, might i truly feel disrespected by

you, as i take part in the system, which disrobes your son of any integrity, in the self validating

grimace with which you throw him under the train of schizophrenia, banshee not content with

infanticide, but bent on worse tortures, public humiliation for they whom you might show love.

and that it gives you an upper hand, in your ethics card game, to snarl such cruelty at him, seems

a game well crafted to glue together your house of cards, from which you extract salary, on basis

of your son’s daily crucifiction and the sanitization of ritualistic animal torture.

Better it were to hide your crimes of hate against him, better you could smother your disgust

for our generation, better you could understand the scientific actualities of our minds before

such hasty rush to judgement and poison through the hoops of pseudoscience and self-

aggrandizement.

And if perchance you read this, know that it comes from a mind lobotomized by your sons

torturers, and that i have seen with my own eyes the sexual assault of macaques at OHSU, as can

anyone on youtube, and that we have entered a new era, such that such exploitative assaults on

human and animal dignity will no longer masquerade as civil society, or ethics.

And better were it to let pubmed do the talking as the mechanisms of mind transpire, that our pop

psychology media propagandas might not pollute the discourse, nor privacy breaches befoul the

atmosphere, such that i know, should you do it to him, so too you would to me.

and that i feel, in my hardest of hearts to be your ethical calling, to remove your false authority

and affiliations, and seek to find a higher way, out of treating humans like guinea pigs and our

minds like rubbish bins for all kinds of tired used propaganda.

and so see and feel in the future, we will not take your disparagement and cruelty lightly,

whether fueled by pharmaceutical salemanship or larger political repressions, that you might

keep us under thumb at all times , by your false systems of power which seek to censor and

sanitize that which you do.

and so for the dead i write, the dead macaques and humans alike, who did not survive to call up

this show of ethical whitewashing.

Legal theats

Seroquel lawsuit

Paxil suicide

Media Interest

Brand campaigns and publicity coups

Goebbels

propaganda

manufacture of illness

ADD

ADHD

Prozac late nineties for weightloss bulimia depression

Other issues:

RU486 fatality rate, FDA regulation, Planned Parenthood under the radar approach to

Miprefistone, such that physician instructions violate FDA regulation, and significant fatalities

do not inform the discussion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mifepristone

The Future:

towards transparency in all things

epoch times reports lobotimization of intellectuals in china, and religious persecution of

members of Falun Gong

http://www.theepochtimes.com/211,111,,1.html

who are also subject to organ harvesting.

Red scare incarceration of “Communists”

Literary, Cinematic, and Memoir reactions:

Shine

I never promised you a rose garden

Girl, Interrupted

Prozac Nation

One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest

Equus

Lady Gaga “Bad Romance”

Medication:

http://www.coreynahman.com/atypical-antipsychotic-lawsuits.html

Schizophrenia reinterpreted as Homocysteine Toxicity Build-up:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14572619

Policy and Transparency:

http://mirror.wikileaks.info/wiki/Big_Pharma_caught_spying_on_the_WHO/

http://mirror.wikileaks.info/wiki/

Big_Pharma_inside_the_WHO__confidential_analysis_of_unreleased_WHO_Expert_Working_

Group_draft_reports,_8_Dec_2009/

Medications:

thorazine

lithium

risperdal

haldol

seroquel

Side Effects:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardive_dyskinesia

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/grand-mal-seizure/DS00222

Wednesday, 17 November 2010

Monday, 8 November 2010

update

researching emeergency room protocol and assisted suicide and living wills in reference to our huntingtons disease/suicide case study project.

in primate research news,
found this link regarding jane goodall's stance against primate testing
http://www.janegoodall.org/chimps-GAPA-fact-sheet

i wonder very much about the videos matt rossell took when he worked for ohsu.
do they really electro-shock the male primates to get samples of their reproductive matter?
it seems really twisted to me personally . . .
i am newly completely fascinated by the wikileaks scenario and feel more than ever confident about total transparency in all corrupt activities.

i am very heartily amused that portland state's legal counsel continues to issue pronouncements on the secrecy of OHSU's primate experimentation via patricia backlar.

i would love to find and visit legal counsel today and ask them, why whatever do you mean?

Monday, 1 November 2010

JD MD william noonan, from firm klarqvist sparkman LLP

super awesome

patina of infallibility
genetic tests probability

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_v._Chakrabarty

GM oil spill eating

why not used for BP or discussed????

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recombinant_DNA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Price_Competition_and_Patent_Term_Restoration_Act

for university fed grant title patent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act

http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/policies/copyright-and-patents/
from pirate party UK:
Pharmaceutical patents are a major problem for the world. We need to strike a better balance between the need to pay for drug research, and the need to end the postcode lottery that UK citizens suffer when patented drugs are too expensive for the NHS. We need to tackle the problem of preventable deaths in the third world caused by high price of patented drugs. We will achieve this by abolishing drug patents, which will reduce drug costs drastically, since all drugs will become generic. This will save the NHS a massive amount of money, and part of that saving will be used to subsidise drug research. The pharmaceutical industry currently spends around 15% of its patent drug income on research; we will replace that with subsidies to the value of 20%, increasing research budgets, while still saving the NHS money. This policy of making all drugs generic will create a massive opportunity for industry to make profits, employ more people, and save lives by encouraging the manufacture of newly generic drugs in this country for sale to the third world.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/280/5364/698

do patents inhibit?
anticommons tragedy eisenberg

new useful and nonobvious

adrenaline purified

genomic dna in nature
synth patent
http://www.aclu.org/free-speech-womens-rights/aclu-challenges-patents-breast-cancer-genes-0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRCA1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRCA2

re DNA breast cancer
retention of informational content

PTO

patents invalid
penumbra of uncertainty

re research on the brca---
re canada

de facto regulation bc canada has control govt

keeps price down

case being appealed--
canada gets benefit---lower price

we are funding R&D for the world

reissues
prilosec
invalidated by the court
paying generic competitors to stay out of business

FTC
outlaw try
effectively extends life of the patent
cynical scenario
AZT and HIV
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/46868/AZT

3rd world less regulation----
so more access

pirate party says then, 1st world over-focuses on cosmetic and psychotrop and cosmeceutical luxury meds for R&D then ignores more life and death---

million PTO backlog
investors waiting and waiting

europe evolving system
unified now

USA diff---then we might harmonize towards international patent standards

does the pridictive power
the effectiveness

mutation
no significant improvement

NIH
francis collins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Collins_(geneticist)
book
genetivcist

testing
misunderstanding

FDA is trying to stop the sale
prone to misinformation

genetics not destiny

Myriad ruling would give certainty
now: max uncertainty

lower court will be overturned

DNA patentable?

marc hatfield

testified before congress

recombinant advisory committee
http://oba.od.nih.gov/rdna_rac/rac_about.html

trademark symbol

patent machine

description copyright---the arrangement of the words

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_re_Bilski

The en banc Federal Circuit upheld the rejection, 9–3. The majority opinion by Chief Judge Paul Redmond Michel characterized the issue as whether the claimed method is a patent-eligible "process," as the patent statute (35 U.S.C. § 101) uses that term. While any series of actions or operations is a process in the dictionary sense of that term, the court explained, the Supreme Court has held that the statutory meaning is narrower than the dictionary meaning which "forecloses a purely literal reading." Patent-eligible processes do not include "laws of nature, natural phenomena, [or] abstract ideas." The limiting legal principle applies not just to processes, but to anything on which a patent is sought. As a trilogy of Supreme Court decisions on patent-eligibility from approximately three decades ago had taught, "Phenomena of nature, though just discovered, mental processes, and abstract intellectual concepts are not patentable, as they are the basic tools of scientific and technological work." ^[10] Therefore, the question was whether Bilski's process fell within any of the prohibited categories (that is, was a claim to a "principle"), and the underlying legal question was what legal tests or criteria should govern that determination when a claim is directed to a principle.

for hedging risk
machine test

reproduction of instructions---copyright---
ballet
songs

reduce incentive---
stem cell research moved faster in UK bc american patent law

culture concepts relevant to health

pharma $
USA meritocracy

demand volume
health system
study

private investor v. research govt funded

govt.
grants
NIH
national institute of health

Huntington's case

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1341184/

about dna marker psychological effects of knowing likelihoods

presentation notes and links

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9456524

http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/ph/ipe/ysp/sdata.shtml

http://www.leg.state.or.us/ors/163.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Death_with_Dignity_Act

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington's_disease

http://depts.washington.edu/bioethx/tools/cecase.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insanity_defense

class notes

difference between genomics and genetics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genomics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics

bill noonan
physician
genetics
patent attorney whewhew!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Vesalius
the organs

transplant next week

why are we not using molecular biology

university lawyer has told patricia backlar to read letter to describe forbidding of any recording
should find

transparecy v. secrecy in the wikileaks era

i find this interesting: animal experimentation and a veil of privacy in the wikileaks era: in the future there will be total transparency for all things including violations of human and animal dignity.

i got ethics for dummies from the library day. which may help me understand why i am unethical for loving animals and open-ness and internet and honesty.

i do not plan on any further tech demos. but we'll see how my conscience treats me. it has been so demanding lately.

just incidentally, i link to the ELF and the ALF on my main arts blog braingarbage. i do this to protest the AETA and all free speech restrictions.

i am fascinated by the point at which my free speech becomes restricted to protect federally funded deviant animal abuse.

my sense of ethics balks at the attempt to coerce me in to whitewashing OHSU's animal welfare act violations, electrical genital stimulation of primates for forced ejaculate, and incarceration of the beautiful beings.

jane goodall is such a hero to me.

she is opposed to testing on higher primates and is a long term vegetarian.

just for
Dear Colleagues,
Immediately below I reiterate our BIOMEDICAL ETHICS (PHL. 481/581) CLASS PRIVACY POLICY. This notice applies to
all students in this class. Please take particular notice of the addition of item #1 which forbids recording with any sort of device
(tape, laptop, cell phone etc. ).

BIOMEDICAL ETHICS (PHL. 481/581) CLASS PRIVACY POLICY

1). All RECORDING DEVISES ARE FORBIDDEN. TO OBTAIN THE WHOLE OR ANY PART OF A
CONVERSATION BY MEANS OF ANY DEVICE, CONTRIVANCE, MACHINE OR APPARATUS WHETHER
ELECTRICAL MECHANICAL, MANUAL, OR OTHERWISE IS FORBIDDEN.

2).  I have mentioned to you previously (DURING OUR FIRST CLASS MEETING AND BY EMAIL)
that the whole point of our Biomedical Ethics course (PHL. 481/581) is to provide each 
of you with a safe place in which you may freely and critically examine,
explore and reflect upon your own ideas relevant to the variety of topics
and cases which we address throughout our fall term Monday evening
meetings.

3). In order to maintain a 'safe place' in our classroom for each of us -- being 
mindful of the principle of  'respect for persons'-- we will hold our conversations as 
confidential in precisely the same way which we do when we work with other
bioethicists, clinicians, patients, family members when we conduct an 
'Ethics Consult Service'  where we address issues relevant to patients in clinical practice 
or in the hospital. The 'principle' of respecting confidentiality is an essential
part of the practice of medicine.

4). Furthermore, we owe respect to our guest speakers. The clinicians, researchers, lawyers and 
professors who so generously take time from their busy schedules to visit our class and share 
their expertise with you well understand the importance of the work to which you aspire. 
Our guests trust that their conversations with you and with each other will remain private and 
confidential.

-- 
Patricia Backlar, Research Associate Professor of Bioethics 
Department of Philosophy Portland State University 
POB 751 Portland OR 97207 
503/725 -3499 (voice) 503/725-3693 (fax) 503/703-4405 (cell) 
backlarp@pdx.edu (email)
http://www.pdx.edu/philosophy/patricia-backlar 
                (biosketch & publications)

Wednesday, 20 October 2010

primate experimentation and secrecy

backlar writes about keeping the testimony of the primate experimenters secret and confidential.

what if it against my ethics?

what if i have ethics?

maybe that puts me at a disadvantage to take biomedical ethics at PSU.

backlar writes:

"In order to maintain a 'safe place' in our classroom for each of us -- being
mindful of the principle of 'respect for persons'-- we will hold our conversations as
confidential in precisely the same way which we do when we work with other
bioethicists, clinicians, patients, family members when we conduct an
'Ethics Consult Service' where we address issues relevant to patients in clinical practice
or in the hospital. The 'principle' of respecting confidentiality is an essential
part of the practice of medicine.

Furthermore, we owe respect to our guest speakers. The clinicians,
researchers, and professors who so generously take time from their busy schedules to visit our class
and share their expertise with you well understand the importance of the work to which you aspire.
As our guests trust that their conversations with you and with each other will remain private and
confidential."

Thursday, 14 October 2010

7pm saturday OHSU and primates 5th avenue cinema portland

alternative viewpoints

Tuesday, 12 October 2010

international comparative bioethics

Since 2003, experimentation on great apes (chimpanzees, pygmy chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans) and nine species of Gibbons have been banned in Sweden, but it is still permitted to use other primates for animal testing.
In Sweden, primates are used for vivisection experiments at the Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI) in Solna. The primates used are macaques that are imported from breeding facilities in China and Israel. Even though it is illegal to purchase primates caught in the wild, SMI has been found to have purchased wild apes on several occasions.

from
http://www.stoppaprimatforsoken.nu/in-english
regarding
swedish standards

SMIs experimentation on primates is very controversial. In the year 2000, Aftonbladet (the biggest evening newspaper in Sweden) carried the following headlines: “SMI banned from keeping primates” and “the animal cruelty has ended”. The background to this press attention was that SMI, since 1994, has not been abiding by rules and regulations stipulated in the Animal Cruelty Act. Furthermore, SMI had lied to the Department of Agriculture in regards to the size of the cages that housed the primates. The Department of Agriculture even went so far as to “question SMI:s competency in conducting any type of animal testing whatsoever”.
The greater majority of apes at SMI live in two meter high cages, about as small as three normal-sized closets. They are housed in pairs or in a group. A small number of individuals also have the possibility of getting some fresh air by being temporarily placed in an outdoor cage, but this cage is only available to primates being used for certain experiments.
One demand made by the Department of Agriculture, which would allow SMI to keep its permits to experiment on animals, was the daily training of primates for “cooperation” in the taking of test samples. To better facilitate the capture of the primates for anesthesia and test sampling, the primates are trained to “cooperate” using so-called “clickers” (the purpose is to train the primate to volunteer their own arm to be pricked with a needle in exchange for a reward). But SMI continues to capture primates with the help of a movable wall at the back of each cage that presses the primate up against the cage bars, restricting their movements.
SMI admits to not abiding by the demands of the Department of Agriculture.
EUPRIM-Net is a network of 8 European animal testing facilities that use primates and SMI is one of those facilities. The idea is that together, the 8 build a virtual primate center for the experimentation and breeding of primates.

for a comprehensive list of international primate testing sites and more about primate sourcing the the UC system and the AETA scroll down here:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/06/19/18651256.php

animal welfare act violations, national primate liberation week, chattel

WHAT IS WRONG WITH OHSU?: SCREENING OF “CHATTEL”

SATURDAY OCTOBER 16TH, 7:00P

5TH AVE. CINEMA, 510 SW Hall St

“Chattel” is a documentary film about the animal research industry and the movements to abolish it.

The film will be followed by a discussion, facilitated by the Animal Defense League, on the current state of OHSU and the campaigns to stop its primate testing program.

Sponsored by the Student Animal Liberation Coalition- salcpsu@gmail.com

This event will be in conjunction with Animal Defense League's week of action against the Oregon National Primate Research Center, part of National Primate Liberation Week.
Over 70,000 primates (rhesus monkeys, baboons, squirrel monkeys, chimpanzees, etc.) are experimented on every year in the United States. Many thousands of primates are also imprisoned in labs for breeding and conditioning. Recent USDA statistics reveal that over 124,000 primates are held captive in U.S. laboratories.

Many of these primates experience horrible conditions. Recent government documentation has revealed primates dying of dehydration, starvation, hypothermia, heat stress, being boiled alive in cage washers, wasting diseases, hepatitis, encephalitis, and many other severe illnesses.

National Primate Liberation Week will take place October 16th – October 24th. Please help fight for the chimpanzees, rhesus monkeys, spider monkeys, marmosets, lemurs, squirrel monkeys, owl monkeys, and all the other innocent primates confined in laboratories. Help us end their abuse!

In Portland, we will be targeting OHSU's National Primate Research Center, which houses over 4,200 primates and has been fined for numerous USDA violations of the Animal Welfare Act.

sleepless due to concerns regarding ohsu

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eliot_Spindel

4000 macaques now according to our guests the grey suited one

http://www.tobacco.org/news/121152.html

when i asked the grey-sited primate researcher about the nicotine experiments he at fist acted like he knew nothing of it.
i then said blandly, oh i read about it on the internet about four years ago. then he assented as if well yes it were true. or maybe he wasn't there. maybe it wasn't his particular interest.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Oregon_National_Primate_Research_Center

depression selfmutilation unaesthetisized ejaculation by electrical shock by the techs
a method discovered through human torture

the video taken by ohsu employee matt rossell
watch the footage of a sick baby macaque at OHSU
in judy cameron's behavior studies

from ALF's website

Nova Will Stop Doing Business With Primate Products

By Michael J. Mooney
Tue, Sep. 14 2010
Broward/Palm Beach New Times

Nova Southeastern University in Davie will no longer do business with Primate Products, the controversial animal research facility in Doral, according to the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida .

After the release of several disturbing photos depicting monkeys with serious injuries, local activists approached university officials about Nova's relationship with Primate Products.

An administrator admitted the school has purchased monkeys from the facility for a research project funded by the National Institute of Health, says Don Anthony, ARFF spokesperson.

"They informed us that they will not be working with that facility in the future," Anthony says. Calls to Nova were not immediately returned.

"They've chosen not to be associated with the disturbing, bloody photos," Anthony says. "We're glad they came to this decision. There's no reason any research should be using live animals."

Last week, the USDA announced it will conduct a special investigation of Primate Products.

Anthony dismisses claims that animal research provides important scientific knowledge and leads to better medicines.

Animal rights advocates say 90 percent of universities in America no longer use live animals . "That includes Yale and Harvard," Anthony says. "If this type of research was so vital, like some people claim, everyone would be doing it. But they're not."

Local activists say they will continue protesting Primate Products -- and the home of President Donald Bradford -- until the facility closes down.

madness and civilization--foucault

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madness_and_Civilization

Monday, 11 October 2010

for dorthea dix and antonin artaud

civil commitment process
police
hearing

dramatic decline

two people can go down to courthouse and begin the process of community investigation

county mental health

low level
standard of proof

probable cause
of mental illness

for civil court
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involuntary_commitment

if they believe that a person needs to be committed

they can be held in ERs for days

there are not enough beds

then they are transported in police cars far away---

we have knowledge increase
and decline of services

what irony

i ask if a family might try to frivolously incarcerate other family members
for personal distaste or purposes of a will (or other humiliations)

is there room for that in the law? (by which i mean the oregon local law)

he says there is

there is
very little frivolous commitment

backlar shook her head at me. i do not know for sure what it meant.

lots of protections for civil liberties
so says bloom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Dix

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Artaud

and the thorazine blues
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorpromazine

and chief bromden

there will be a new state mental hospital in the future