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Experimenting with
Humans and Animals From Galen to Animal
Rights Anita Guerrini |
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Experimentation on
animals, and particularly on humans, is often assumed to be a uniquely modern
phenomenon. But the ideas and attitudes that encourage the biological and
medical sciences to experiment on living creatures date from the earliest
expression of Western thought. In Experimenting with Humans and Animals,
Anita Guerrini looks at the history of these
practices from vivisection in ancient Guerrini offers in-depth
discussion of key historical episodes in the use of living beings in science
and medicine, including the discovery of bloods circulation, the development
of smallpox and polio vaccines, and recent AIDS research. She also explores
the rise of the antivivisection movement in Victorian England, the modern
animal rights movements, and current debates over gene therapy. In this
highly accessible text, we learn how our understanding of animal's capacity
to feel pain has evolved - and how the ethical values of science seldom stay
far from those of the society in which scientists live and work. Anita Guerrini is an associate professor on the program in
environmental studies and the department of history at the University of
California, Santa Barbara. |
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