animal experimentation

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animal experimentation

Sacred cows and golden geese

the human cost of experiments on animals
2000
Presents scientific evidence to support the authors' contention that animal experimentation has not led to any significant advances in the treatment of human disease; charges that the practice continues because of a faulty system of funding; and urges scientists, researchers, veterinarians, and physicians to speak out on the failure of animal experimentation as revealed in their own fields.

The monkey wars

1994
Candid account of the conflicts, both social and psychological, of using primates in American laboratories.

Shipwrecked on Mad Island

2009
As the hero of this graphic novel who is shipwrecked and stranded on an island during a school field trip, the reader is asked to make choices throughout the story to avoid being harmed by strange, half-human creatures.

Animal rights

1986
Surveys legislation, public attitudes, and conditions in the area of treatment of animals, particularly in scientific experimentation and also in agriculture, hunting, and entertainment.

Animal experimentation

a guide to the issues
2009
An introductory guide to issues in animal experimentation that covers its history and ethics, the moral status of animals, the obligations of researchers, alternatives to animal research, and experimentation regulations in the U.S., Europe, and Australasia.

The animal experimentation debate

a reference handbook
Presents all sides on the issue of experimenting on animals in the name of science and includes biographies of individuals who have been involved in the debate through history.

The island of Dr. Moreau

2005
Presents the classic novel of H.G. Wells entitled "The Island of Dr. Moreau" in which Dr. Moreau gets exiled from his homeland for his cruel vivisection experiments to a deserted island where he continues his brutal practices.

Masks

2002
After assisting with her own cat's emergency surgery, Sunita decides she can no longer work with animals and accepts an internship at a lab, unaware that the research conducted there includes animal testing.

The island of Dr. Moreau

1988
Dr. Moreau, a scientist, finds an isolated island that gives him the freedom to create hideous creatures with manlike intelligence.

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