Experimenting with Humans and Animals
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- Paperback
216 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2022
Summary
Experimenting with Life: A History of Ethical Boundaries in Science
Examining the ideas and attitudes that encourage scientists to experiment on living creatures, what their justifications are, and how these have changed over time.
Experimentation on animals—particularly humans—is often assumed to be a uniquely modern phenomenon. But the ideas and attitudes that encourage biological and medical scientists to experiment on living creatures date from the earli…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781421444055 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1421444054 |
| Series: | Hopkins Introductions to the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine |
| Author: | Anita Guerrini |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Imprint: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2022 |
| Weight: | 318g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 14mm |
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I was impressed by Guerrini’s vast knowledge of the historical development of biomedical science, including the events that matter to ethical issues around use of animal and human subjects in research.—Perspectives in Science and Christian Faith…a valuable, insightful, and useful book, covering a vast time span and a weighty theme.—Journal of the History of Biology
About The Author
Anita Guerrini
Anita Guerrini is the Horning Professor in the Humanities Emerita at Oregon State University and a research professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of The Courtiers’ Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV’s Paris.
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