The Rise and Fall of Animal Experimentation, 9780197665756
Hardcover
Cruel science or real progress? Rethinking animal experimentation’s value.

The Rise and Fall of Animal Experimentation

empathy, science, and the future of research

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  • Hardcover

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    19 September 2023

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Summary

The Animal Lab: Science or Suffering?

Every year, hundreds of millions of animals are used in biomedical research, often enduring extreme cruelty. The rapid growth of the pharmaceutical industry and research funding has normalized this practice, but what are the actual scientific benefits, and how effective are these experiments?

Is animal research truly essential for developing new therapies for human diseases?

Written by a scientist with over 40 years of laboratory…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780197665756
ISBN-10:0197665756
Author:Richard J. Miller
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:Oxford University Press Inc
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:19 September 2023
Weight:567g
Dimensions:165mm x 237mm x 26mm
About The Author

Richard J. Miller

Richard J. Miller is Emeritus Professor at Northwestern University. He obtained his PhD from Cambridge University in 1975. Following a year working for the Burroughs-Wellcome Fund, he joined the faculty of the Pharmacology and Physiology department at the University of Chicago in 1976, where he earned the title of the William Mabie Professor of Pharmacology. In 2000, he became a member of the faculty in the Department of Pharmacology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine as the Alfred Newton Richards Professor of Pharmacology, where he is an emeritus today.

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