The animal experimentation debate : a reference handbook / David E. Newton.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Contemporary world issues.
Main Author: Newton, David E.
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2013]
Series:Contemporary world issues.
Subjects:
Animal experimentation > Moral and ethical aspects.
Physical Description:xvii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Background and history
  • Vivisection in ancient history
  • Dissection and vivisection of humans in Ancient Greece
  • Dissection and vivisection of animals
  • Temporary end of vivisection
  • Dissection in non western cultures
  • Renewal of dissection
  • Vivisection and the rise of modern biology
  • Birth of the antivivisectionist movement
  • Early antivivisectionist legislation
  • Rise of antivivisectionist organizations
  • Problems, controversies and solutions
  • Tide turns, the brown dog affair and the decline of antivivisectionism
  • Antivivisection movement in the United States hits bottom
  • Resurgence of the antivivisection movement
  • Animal welfare legislation
  • Issues of violence and morality
  • Animal liberation
  • Moral code for animals
  • Impact of animal liberation
  • Industries respond
  • Researchers fight back
  • International scene
  • Animal testing statistics
  • Ongoing debate over animal experimentation
  • Arguments in opposition to animal experimentation and in favor of animal experimentation
  • Moral dilemma of animal research
  • Importance of biomedical research
  • Companion animal and human patients work together
  • Use of animals in behavioral research
  • Animal rights activists object to using animals in experiments
  • Animal welfare concerns about animals in research
  • Animal welfare Act
  • Medical advances without animal research
  • Tolerance
  • 150 years of medical advance
  • Reasoning with myself
  • American Anti-vivisection Society
  • Americans for medical progress
  • Association for assessment and accreditation of laboratory animal care
  • Francis Balkwill
  • Jeremy Bentham
  • Henry Bergh
  • British Union to abolish vivisection
  • Francis Power Cobbe
  • In defense of animals
  • Johns Hopkins Center for alternatives to animal testing
  • Richard Martin
  • National Anti-vivisection Society
  • National Association for Biomedical Research
  • New England Anti-vivisection Society
  • Ingrid Newkirk
  • Sir William Paton
  • Tom Regan
  • Bernard Rollin
  • W.M.S. Russell and Rex L. Burch
  • Peter Singer
  • Ernest Starling
  • Understanding animal research
  • Data and documents
  • Resources
  • Chronology.