Experimenting with Humans and Animals: From Galen to Animal Rights

by Anita Guerrini

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801871972
• ISBN13: 9780801871979
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 8.9"