Vivisection or Science
Zed Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-85649-732-9 (ISBN)
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As the stream of hi-tech drugs continues to multiply and a huge number of animals (in Britain alone, over two and a half million each year) are used in medical experiments, debate continues about reliable methods for biomedical research and their adequacy in protecting human health from new products and procedures. In this book, a leading Italian medical researcher concludes, after years of himself practising animal experimentation and vivisection, that the traditional reliance on these techniques is scientifically misplaced. Published originally in Italian (where it has been through many editions), translated into German and Japanese, and now available in a completely revised and updated edition in English, Professor Croce's classic work constitutes a powerful argument to which both the general public and the medical profession need to pay attention.
He documents with a wealth of fascinating detail precisely how the scientific anti-vivisection movement has constructed a rational case, as opposed to a sentimental or ethical argument. He highlights the increasing dangers to human health resulting from the animal experimenters? assumption that the biological systems of humans and other species are sufficiently similar for valid biomedical comparison. And for the medical researcher, he provides an introduction to the range of alternative methods, including epidemiological research, computer simulation and in vitro techniques.
Professor Pietro Croce headed the Research Laboratory of the L. Sacco Hospital in Milan for many years, in addition to working in various research departments in US and Spanish hospitals. He is the author of a number of medical works in Italian and Spanish.
Part 1 Relying on vivisection - the dangers to human health: my road to Damascus; the modern anti-vivisection movement; animals are not humans - the fallacy of vivisection as a biomedical research method; cancer - a case in point; birth defects - can animal experiments help avoid them? medical advances and public disillusion; biomedical research - aiming at an "exact" science; the argument for vivisection; surgical training and the practice of vivisection; human volunteers - the ethical question; the ultimate abomination - experimenting with the human foetus; genetic engineering - a brave new world?; clinical trials - the moral maze. Part 2 Scientific methods of biomedical research: the epidemiological method; computer simulation; in vitro techniques; other methods of biomedical research.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.7.1999 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Laboratoriumsmedizin | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Orthopädie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Technik ► Medizintechnik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-85649-732-1 / 1856497321 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-85649-732-9 / 9781856497329 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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