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Book chapter
Critically Evaluating Animal Research
Animal Experimentation: Working Towards a Paradigm Change, pp.321-340
BRILL
2019
Abstract
Researchers have sought to understand the mechanisms of human health and disease, for as long as the latter has existed. Serious interest in the structure and functioning of the human body has been evident at least since the ancient Greeks. However, the investigations of Greek physicians into human anatomy and physiology were greatly hampered by social taboos about dissecting human corpses (von Staden, 1989). But non-human animals (hereinafter referred to as animals), were not so revered or feared. Some dissected their corpses, while others, such as Alcmaeon of Croton (sixth–fifth century, BCE), practiced surgical or other invasive procedures on
Details
- Title
- Critically Evaluating Animal Research
- Authors/Creators
- Andrew Knight
- Contributors
- Kathrin Herrmann (Editor)Kimberley Jayne (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Animal Experimentation: Working Towards a Paradigm Change, pp.321-340
- Publisher
- BRILL
- Identifiers
- 991005694578607891
- Copyright
- © Andrew Knight, 2019
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Veterinary Medicine
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
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