animal experimentation

Discusses the pros and cons of testing products intended for human use on animals, as well as the legal and ethical issues involved.

Presents fifteen essays that provide varying perspectives on issues that relate to animal experimentation, and discusses ethics, students dissecting animals in schools, the actions of animal rights groups, and other topics.

Traces the history of animal research and protection and discusses whether any amount of animal distress is justified to save or enhance human life.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.