VIVISECTION

Updated 04-May-2020.

Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about VIVISECTION!

A History of Antivivisection from the 1800s to the Present: Part I (mid-1800s to 1914): Note from the author: This overview of the history of antivivisection was published in three parts in Veterinary Heritage, the bulletin of the American Veterinary Medical History Society, in May 20…

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: vivisection, also known as V-section, is surgery conducted on living organism . act does not define “scientific necessity” or regulate specific scientific procedures . in the u.k., any experiment involving in australia, all experiments must be approved by an animal experimentation ethics committee . the emergence of hospitals and the development of advanced medical tools such as the stethoscope are just a few of the changes in the medical field magendie was a physiologist at the Académie Royale de Médecine in France . he studied anatomy and physiology at the académie royale de médecine . the cost of animal lives and experimentation was well worth it for the benefit of humanity . many viewed Magendie’s work as cruel and unnecessarily torturous . magendie carried out many of his experiments before the advent of anesthesia . other physiologists expressed their disgust with how he conducted his work . cruelty in such experiments led to Magendie’s role as an important figure physiologist David Ferrier was a pioneer in understanding the brain . he used animals to show that certain locales of the brain corresponded to bodily movement elsewhere in the body . many decried his use of anti-vivisection movement in england had roots in Evangelicalism and Quakerism . some religions already had a distrust for science, only intensified by Darwin’s theory of evolution . ferrier would vex the anti-vivisection movement in Britain with his experiments . he won the debate, but did not have a license, leading the anti vivasection movement to sue him in 1881 vivisection without anesthesia was an execution method employed by the Khmer Rouge at the Tuol Sleng prison . only seven people survived the four-year run of the prison before its liberation by the Vietnamese army in Sade Pblica, Rio de Janeiro, 2007″ Yarri, Donna. The Ethics of Animal Experimentation, Oxford University Press U.S., 2005.