Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Bodies of Evidence: Experimentation and Philosophical
Debate in Premodern Europe
Chapter 2. Animals, Machines, and Morals
Chapter 3. Disrupting God's Plan
Chapter 4. Cruelty and Kindness
Chapter 5. The Microbe Hunters
Chapter 6. Polio and Primates
Conclusion. Human Rights, Animals Rights, and the Conduct of
Science
Suggested Further Reading
Index
Anita Guerrini is an associate professor in the Program in Environmental Studies and the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
An excellent survey of human experimentation on both humans and
animals. Her attention to interactions between experimenters and
the societies in which they live offers a valuable sociohistorical
context for understanding today's ethical debates over cloning,
genetic engineering, and the breeding of animals to supply human
body parts . . . A fine interdisciplinary work.
*Choice*
Anyone who has been frustrated by the lack of a general
undergraduate text on the history of human and animal
experimentation will be pleased to discover Anita Guerrini's
book..her book will be essential to beginning students in the
history of biology and medicine, to anyone interested in the
historical development of human-animal relationships or the history
of animal welfare, and to practicing biologists, in particular
physiologists, who wish to understand both historic and current
debates about the use of animals in the laboratory.
*Journal of the History of Biology*
Unique, succinct, and informative . . . It is rare to mix the
stories of animal and human research together, and this joint
history has been little understood and appreciated among even
modern day discussants . . . The history is well drawn and
accurate. Inserts illustrating important historical documents
provide a feel of the times and thinking under discussion. The
mixture of history and ethics makes this appropriate both for
mentors and young Martin Arrowsmiths.
*Journal of the American Medical Association*
Within its confines, the author presented a balanced review of
historical highlights (perhaps also lowlifes depending on
perspective) surrounding animal and human vivisection and use in
research . . . This was a great read and I recommend it to all.
*Laboratory Animal Practitioner*
A compelling and engaging account of the ways experiments have been
conducted on animals and humans from the time of Galen to the
present. [Guerrini's] book is crucial not only for understanding
the changing value placed on experiments over time but also because
it invaluable deepens our knowledge of the history of medicine.
*Journal of the History of Medicine*
The selected historical episodes involve individuals who are so
eccentric . . . and experiments that are so shocking . . . that
Guerrini's book reads like a work of historical fiction and, in
turn, is highly engaging. This, or course, is not to be understood
as a challenge to the work's historical veracity; rather, it is to
be understood as a tribute to the captivating nature of the subject
matter as well as the way in which that subject matter is presented
. . . one cannot help but find Experimenting to be highly engaging
. . . But being engaging isn't the book's only virtue. It also
reminds us of and underscores a number of important issues closely
tied to the contemporary debate on human and nonhuman animal
experimentation . . . Guerrini's highly engaging, informative
treatment on the history of the Western world's experimentation
with humans and nonhuman animals is strongly recommended.
*Medical Humanities Review*
Unique, succinct, and informative book . . . the history is well
drawn and accurate . . . The mixture of history and ethics makes
the book appropriate both for mentors and young Martin
Arrowsmiths.
*JAMA*
Guerrini does a fine job of putting the anatomy and physiology
studies of Galen, Harvey and Vesalius, and the vaccination work of
Jenner, Pasteur, Koch and Salk in historical context.
*Nature Medicine*
Well-written, highly accessible, and highlighting the major trends,
events, and people in the history of Western medicine, experimental
biology, and physiology, Experimenting with Humans and Animals is
an excellent introductory text in the history of science or
medicine.
*Journal of Interdisciplinary History*
A fascinating tour through the history of animal experimentation,
with reference to human experimentation for perspective.
*Journal of Clinical Research Best Practices*
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