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Book The Vivisection Controversy

Download or read book The Vivisection Controversy written by Albert Leffingwell and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Anti Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain

Download or read book Anti Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain written by A.W.H. Bates and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book explores the social history of the anti-vivisection movement in Britain from its nineteenth-century beginnings until the 1960s. It discusses the ethical principles that inspired the movement and the socio-political background that explains its rise and fall. Opposition to vivisection began when medical practitioners complained it was contrary to the compassionate ethos of their profession. Christian anti-cruelty organizations took up the cause out of concern that callousness among the professional classes would have a demoralizing effect on the rest of society. As the nineteenth century drew to a close, the influence of transcendentalism, Eastern religions and the spiritual revival led new age social reformers to champion a more holistic approach to science, and dismiss reliance on vivisection as a materialistic oversimplification. In response, scientists claimed it was necessary to remain objective and unemotional in order to perform the experiments necessary for medical progress.

Book The Ethics of Animal Research

Download or read book The Ethics of Animal Research written by Jeremy R. Garrett and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-03-30 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A balanced, accessible discussion of whether and on what grounds animal research can be ethically justified. An estimated 100 million nonhuman vertebrates worldwide—including primates, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, birds, rats, and mice—are bred, captured, or otherwise acquired every year for research purposes. Much of this research is seriously detrimental to the welfare of these animals, causing pain, distress, injury, or death. This book explores the ethical controversies that have arisen over animal research, examining closely the complex scientific, philosophical, moral, and legal issues involved. Defenders of animal research face a twofold challenge: they must make a compelling case for the unique benefits offered by animal research; and they must provide a rationale for why these benefits justify treating animal subjects in ways that would be unacceptable for human subjects. This challenge is at the heart of the book. Some contributors argue that it can be met fairly easily; others argue that it can never be met; still others argue that it can sometimes be met, although not necessarily easily. Their essays consider how moral theory can be brought to bear on the practical ethical questions raised by animal research, examine the new challenges raised by the emerging possibilities of biotechnology, and consider how to achieve a more productive dialogue on this polarizing subject. The book's careful blending of theoretical and practical considerations and its balanced arguments make it valuable for instructors as well as for scholars and practitioners.

Book The Victorian Vivisection Debate

Download or read book The Victorian Vivisection Debate written by Theodore G. Obenchain and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-11-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it justifiable for scientists to subject live animals to open operations--forcing them to suffer for the benefit of humans? This book expounds upon a debate among such experimental scientists as Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch in Victorian England--at a time in which animal cruelty (bear-baiting, e.g.) was ubiquitous. Journalist and reformer Frances Power Cobbe became so incensed that she devoted her political and legislative talents over a thirty year period to prohibiting vivisection. Struggling within severe medical limitations was London surgeon Lister, hardly able to operate for fear his patients would succumb to sepsis. After reading of Pasteur's new theory about germs, Lister helped revolutionize hospital care. These two scientists and Koch then expanded the scientific base by animal experiments. As their methods improved, they transformed medicine into a beneficent institution within British culture. No single adversarial movement could have held back the tide of modernism. The author brings the debate up to the 21st century by analyzing modern-day animal rights theories, and offers a credo for readers who remain undecided.

Book Subjected to Science

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  • Author : Susan E. Lederer
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 1997-11-07
  • ISBN : 9780801857096
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Subjected to Science written by Susan E. Lederer and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1997-11-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Lederer provides the first full-length history of early biomedical research with human subjects. Lederer offers detailed accounts of experiments conducted on both healthy and unhealthy men, women, and children, during the period from 1890 to 1940, including yellow fever experiments, Udo Wile's "dental drill" experiments on insane patients, and Hideyo Noguchi's syphilis experiments.

Book The Case for Animal Rights

Download or read book The Case for Animal Rights written by Tom Regan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE argument for animal rights, a classic since its appearance in 1983, from the moral philosophical point of view. With a new preface.

Book Animal Experimentation

Download or read book Animal Experimentation written by Kathrin Herrmann and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal Experimentation: Working Towards a Paradigm Change critically appraises current animal use in science and discusses ways in which we can contribute to a paradigm change towards human-biology based approaches.

Book Moral Authority  Men of Science  and the Victorian Novel

Download or read book Moral Authority Men of Science and the Victorian Novel written by Anne DeWitt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne DeWitt examines how Victorian novelists challenged the claims of men of science to align scientific practice with moral excellence.

Book Heart and Science

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  • Author : Wilkie Collins
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1883
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Heart and Science written by Wilkie Collins and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Use of Laboratory Animals in Biomedical and Behavioral Research

Download or read book Use of Laboratory Animals in Biomedical and Behavioral Research written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1988-02-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific experiments using animals have contributed significantly to the improvement of human health. Animal experiments were crucial to the conquest of polio, for example, and they will undoubtedly be one of the keystones in AIDS research. However, some persons believe that the cost to the animals is often high. Authored by a committee of experts from various fields, this book discusses the benefits that have resulted from animal research, the scope of animal research today, the concerns of advocates of animal welfare, and the prospects for finding alternatives to animal use. The authors conclude with specific recommendations for more consistent government action.

Book Animal Experimentation and Animal Rights

Download or read book Animal Experimentation and Animal Rights written by Ruth Friedman and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1987 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Anti vivisectionist

Download or read book The Anti vivisectionist written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Home Chronicler

Download or read book The Home Chronicler written by and published by . This book was released on 1876-06-24 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In the Name of Science

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  • Author : F. Barbara Orlans
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1993-07-08
  • ISBN : 0199762805
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book In the Name of Science written by F. Barbara Orlans and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-07-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few arguments in biomedical experimentation have stirred such heated debate in recent years as those raised by animal research. In this comprehensive analysis of the social, political, and ethical conflicts surrounding the use of animals in scientific experiments, Barbara Orlans judges both ends of the spectrum in this debate -- unconditional approval or rejection of animal experimentation -- to be untenable. Instead of arguing for either view, she thoughtfully explores the ground between the extremes, and convincingly makes the case for public policy reforms that serve to improve the welfare of laboratory animals without jeopardizing scientific endeavor. This book presents controversial issues in a balanced manner based on careful historical analysis and original research. Different mechanisms of oversight for animal experiments are compared and those that have worked well are identified. This compelling work will be of interest to biomedical scientists, ethicists, animal welfare advocates and other readers concerned with this critical issue.

Book What Animals Want

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  • Author : Larry Carbone
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2004-04-01
  • ISBN : 0199721882
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book What Animals Want written by Larry Carbone and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Larry Carbone, a veterinarian who is in charge of the lab animal welfare assurance program at a major research university, presents this scholarly history of animal rights. Biomedical researchers, and the less fanatical among the animal rights activists will find this book reasonable, humane, and novel in its perspective. It brings a novel, sociological perspective to an area that has been addressed largely from a philosophical perspective, or from the entrenched positions of highly committed advocates of a particular position in the debate.

Book Hearts and Minds

Download or read book Hearts and Minds written by Julian McAllister Groves and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in a university town that is a center of biomedical research, Groves found he could not ignore the intense opposition to research using animals. He began to analyze the formation and activities of local protest groups, attending meetings and talking to activists about their beliefs. To his surprise, many activists emphasized rational and scientific justifications for their commitment to the movement. Conversely, scientists frequently discussed their use of lab animals in the context of their attachment to pets or other animals and their concern for the environment. Groves seeks to understand these positions in connection with popular beliefs about the place of emotions in public life. Hearts and Minds looks past the placards and sound-bites to people's intellectual and psychological explanations for their positions. It discards worn generalizations and offers a nuanced portrait of people who are seriously engaged in reconciling their ethics and their behavior.

Book Vivisection in Historical Perspective

Download or read book Vivisection in Historical Perspective written by Nicolaas A. Rupke and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: