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 "Animal and Human Experimentation," 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 antivivisection movement in Victorian England, the modern
animal rights movement, and current debates over gene therapy. In
this highly 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. "Animal and Human Experimentation" 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.
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