Vivisection or Science?: An Investigation into Testing Drugs and Safeguarding Health PDF

Rating: (2 reviews) Author: Pietro Croce ISBN : 9781856497329 New from $69.99 Format: PDF

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As the stream of hi-tech drugs continues to multiply and a huge number of animals 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 practicing animal experimentation and vivisection, that the traditional reliance on these techniques is scientifically misplaced. Now available in a completely revised and updated English edition, Dr. Croce's classic work constitutes a powerful argument. 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.

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• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Zed Books; Rev Upd Su edition (February 12, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1856497321
• ISBN-13: 978-1856497329
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.3 ounces

Vivisection or Science?: An Investigation into Testing Drugs and Safeguarding Health PDF

I bought this book over a year or more ago and it was quite good. Reading it again was better because more of the information is "coming out" of the book now.
It is extremely rare one may read about former vivisectors admitting their mistake in believing vivisection or "animal research" helps humans, because they tend not to let them speak out about it. And when they do, their voice is never carried by the media.
I've only ever come across moral or ethical arguments that were said to come from other vivisectors, but these tend to be from animal technicians (the assistants of vivisectors who look after the animals before they are experimented on and also afterwards as they develop the medicaments the actual vivisector inflicts on the animal(s) used).

The book cover may look graphical, but its the only graphical photo that can be seen anywhere on or in the book. The rest is information, no graphics.

Pietro Croce actually talks about his experiences as a vivisector and doesn't hold back on his findings. The "graphical" stuff is left out for the faint hearted, ethics, morals are also left out. For this I am glad, not because I may be seen as "cold" or lack of emotion, but details on why vivisection is misleading on the scientific level, (because some of the public keep thinking its merely an animal cruelty case when they don't realize they are the test subjects at the end of those vivisections or "research").
Morals, ethics are used against the public to throw you off or reduce the argument so vivisectors just carry on doing what they do without being challenged, people stay conned into thinking it at least works in some way and more people suffer from it in the process. In a way I can see why people think "At least some of it has helped".