Experimenting with Humans and Animals
From Galen to Animal Rights
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2003
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-7196-2 (ISBN)
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-7196-2 (ISBN)
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Anita Guerrine looks at the history of the use of humans and animals for experimentation, from vivisection in ancient Alexandria to present-day battles over animal rights and medical research employing human subjects. She offers in-depth discussions of key historical episodes.
Experimentation on animals and particularly 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 this work, Anita Guerrini looks at the history of these practices from vivisection in ancient Alexandria to present-day battles over animal rights and medical research employing human subjects. Guerrini discusses in-depth key historical episodes in the use of living beings in science and medicine, including the discovery of blood circulation, the development of smallpox and polio vaccines, and recent AIDS research. She also explores the rise of the anti-vivisection movement in Victorian England, the modern animal rights movement and current debates over gene therapy. In this accessible text, we learn how our understanding of an animal's capacity to feel pain has evolved. Guerrini reminds us that the ethical values of science seldom stray far from those of the society in which scientists live and work.
Ethical questions about the use of animals and humans in research remain among the most vexing within both the scientific community and society at large. These often rancorous arguments have gone on, however, with little awareness of their historical antecedents. This book offers students and concerned general readers on every side of this debate a context within which to understand more fully the responsibility we all bear for the suffering inflicted on other living beings in the name of scientific knowledge.
Experimentation on animals and particularly 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 this work, Anita Guerrini looks at the history of these practices from vivisection in ancient Alexandria to present-day battles over animal rights and medical research employing human subjects. Guerrini discusses in-depth key historical episodes in the use of living beings in science and medicine, including the discovery of blood circulation, the development of smallpox and polio vaccines, and recent AIDS research. She also explores the rise of the anti-vivisection movement in Victorian England, the modern animal rights movement and current debates over gene therapy. In this accessible text, we learn how our understanding of an animal's capacity to feel pain has evolved. Guerrini reminds us that the ethical values of science seldom stray far from those of the society in which scientists live and work.
Ethical questions about the use of animals and humans in research remain among the most vexing within both the scientific community and society at large. These often rancorous arguments have gone on, however, with little awareness of their historical antecedents. This book offers students and concerned general readers on every side of this debate a context within which to understand more fully the responsibility we all bear for the suffering inflicted on other living beings in the name of scientific knowledge.
Anita Guerrini is an associate professor in the Program in Environmental Studies and the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Bodies of Evidence: Experimentation and Philosophical Debate in Premodern Europe
Chapter 2. Animals, Machines, and Morals
Chapter 3. Disrupting God's Plan
Chapter 4. Cruelty and Kindness
Chapter 5. The Microbe Hunters
Chapter 6. Polio and Primates
Conclusion. Human Rights, Animals Rights, and the Conduct of Science
Suggested Further Reading
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 27.8.2003 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History of Science |
| Zusatzinfo | 22 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Baltimore, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 363 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Veterinärmedizin ► Klinische Fächer ► Versuchstiere | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8018-7196-4 / 0801871964 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8018-7196-2 / 9780801871962 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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