The Uselessness of Vivisection as a Method of Scientific Research (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Lawson Tait

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1332244424 ISBN 13: 9781332244423

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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This book argues that animal vivisection is not useful as a method of scientific inquiry. The author offers examples of medical advances attributed to vivisection and discusses why they were not solely attributable to vivisection. They also explore instances when vivisection experiments have led to incorrect conclusions. The author argues that the rush to use animals for medical advancement has slowed progress, hindered other areas of medicine, and resulted in tremendous suffering for countless animals. The author concludes that we should end animal vivisection and explore alternate methods of medical research.

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The first is the avenue Of pure abstract morality, by which it, is argued that we have no right to inflict sufferings on others that we ourselves may benefit, an avenue which is worthy of the highest respect, because its Opening up is only a matter of yesterday in the evolution Of the moral life of individuals, and as far as national morality is concerned it can hardly be said to have been ever seriously considered until about a year ago.

The second may be called a political avenue, and is also one of importance, though that importance is not visible at first sight, and may even be altogether denied by some of a particular shade of political conviction. But to those of us who regard the Game Laws as a prolific method Of manufacturing criminals, of wasting public money, Of preventing the development of agricultural industry, and hindering the development of the peasant from his present serfdom to his possible and perfect citizenship, this avenue assumes a mighty importance when we discover that the lay sup port of vivisection is derived mainly from those who maintain costly pheasant preserves in order to become amateur poultry butchers, and who maim pigeons at Hurlingham under the idea that it is amusement.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1332244424
• ISBN 13: 9781332244423
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 38