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Animal Research

            
             The world as we know it has progressed through a series of changes throughout the last couple of centuries. Almost all of this progress can be traced back to technology. Technology has allowed humans to do everything from flying a plane to creating clones. Along with the economical and educational benefits of technology have come medical advances. The phenomenal success of medicine throughout the 20th century can be attributed mainly to technology and the brilliant minds that applied it to medicine. However, the advancement of medicine and human health has not come without costs. One such cost is that in order to find new and more effective forms of treatment, scientists have sacrificed many animals in their testing and research. This has raised the moral question of whether animals should or should not be used in medical research? Although there are some legitimate concerns in addressing this topic, we as humans must answer this question with an emphatic yes!.
             However, by saying that animals should be used in medical testing and research, we must recognize our obligations and responsibilities to these animals. We must not lose sight of the overall goals of the testing and research being done: to find cures for diseases and disorders and to ease pain and suffering (and that goes for all species). Scientists must also continue to use Russell and Burch's "three Rs" as a guideline for research and continue to look for newer and better alternative methods of research. New test-tube research is a perfect example of the new techniques that scientists have and must continue to use in place of animals. As humans continue to gain more knowledge we must also realize the errors of our past ways, and there is evidence that we have. For example, the overall number of animals being used has decreased all over the world. There has also been a dramatic decrease in the amount of experiments that intentionally inflict discomfort and/or pain on animal subjects.


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1. Animal Testing in Medical Rese

... of seventeen to twenty million, of which ninety percent are rodents and about one to two percent are cats and dogs (McCoy, 1993). There is a history behind animal testing in research. Animals have been used in research for more than two thousand years. In the third century B.C., Erasistratus of Alexandria used animals to study bodily function. Galen, who was born in 131 A.D., is ... abused and treated inhumanely. They believe that those doing the research are more worried about the research and findings than the treatment and welfare of the animals used (McCoy, 1993). Critics of animal ...

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2. Animal Testing

... Certainly, these comments don't make the idea any clear. So lets look at this SLIDE (on what will happen without animal research) 2. In this century alone, as animal research has reaped enormous benefits for medical science. Let's look at the following data that we have on only a few of ... Since most people do not perform scientific experiments or know anyone who does, they argue, animal-rights groups can easily distort what goes on in animal-research labs and persuade people to oppose animal testing. B. Animal-rights groups oppose all scientific testing on animals on the grounds that ...

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3. The Pros and Cons of Animal Testing

... in past decades without doubt it. But however, a middle ground must be established that to avoid cruel and unnecessary abuse of animals while accepting in biomedical research (Gannon, 2007). Throughout history, animal testing has allowed researchers to discover a plenty of new drugs, advantage and treatments. Many of these experimentations have directly resulted in curing illnesses and diseases; In ... high investments in the advancement of drugs, there is a low success rate during clinical development. The cause has been linked to flawed preclinical research. Establishing authenticated ...

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4. Animal Research And Testing-w/bib

... that it is worth killing animals or subjecting them to painful experiments. The following pages are not written from specific point of view, nevertheless, it will explain the practice of animal research and testing. Medicines, household products, food, and basically everything involved in the life of an average person has to under go a form of testing before it is legal to be ... United States, animals are gassed, poisoned with cyanide, shot with plastic bullets, and deliberately wounded with high velocity missiles.(6) It is treatment like this that makes the question of whether animal ...

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5. Animal Testing

... prevent major illness, so that we wouldn't need so many new treatments. This misses the fact that much of what we have discovered about preventive measures is the result of animal research (Goldberg 29). Some activists suggested that researchers should use alternatives like computer simulations. Anybody with half a brain should realize this doesn't even make good sense. Where do they think the ... . They wanted to know the ten developments most helpful to their patients. The authors then traced the scientific ancestry of each of these discoveries and found that, in every case, animal res...

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6. animal testing

... and cure polio were not developed in monkeys (Murray), polio would kill or cripple thousands of children and adults in one year ("Animal"). Insulin-dependent diabetics would not have insulin, a benefit of research on dogs, without animal research (Murray). Lack of medication to control high blood pressure would cause sixty million Americans to risk death from heart attack, stroke or ... already killed by the disease. Instead, smallpox has been eradicated with the help of animal research ("Animal"). Without animal research, scientists are limited in their mission to finding treatments a...

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7. Animal Research

... earlier animal testing. (1) Many individuals, mostly scientists, disagree with animal research, so why does the research continue to happen? Animal research continues to happen because "animal research is flexible-it can be used to prove' almost anything."" (11) The list continues to grows. Animal research is "know-, animal research is controllable, animal research is traditional, animal is readily funded, and animal research is ... fast. (11) Just to let an individual know how easy it is to get animal research ... which saves the lives of an estimated 440,000 people every year in the U....

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8. Ethics of Social Behavioral Research

... and wrong method of conducting research. Subsequently code of ethics was developed for research with both animal and human subjects. Animal research has been deemed important for both animal welfare as well as humanity at large. Yet historically many researchers have inflicted harm to animals. Cotemporary research with animal subjects is guided by Ethical and Animal Care Committees as well as ... In order to maintain ethical standards and set the rules in animal research, two societies i.e. association for the study of animal behavior and the animal behavior society have setup joint comm...

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9. Animal Experimentation

... of dollars can be redirected to prevention, public health programs, treatment and clinical research. There are too many missed opportunities for advancement in psychology due to money spent on theoretical, repetitive and exploitative animal research. In our society we have come to see that animal research is an easy way to stay alive in the "publish or perish" ... animals that it is a fundamentally unsound methodology. (Kaufman, 1998). Despite animal researchers routinely take credit for virtually every medical advance; a growing number of medical historians are revealing that medical p...

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10. Animal Ethics

... for human benefit. Without testing or experimentation of animals none of this would have evolved. Human beings are not the only species who benefit from animal testing. Table 1 depicts the advances in biomedical research for animals. Without animal research humans and animals would still be dying or totally wiped out from these diseases. Advances for Animals Table 1 Vaccines: Rabies Distemper Canine Parvo Virus ... done to find compounds that would reduce damage from ischemic stroke. There were 25 compounds that were proven to work on laboratory animals, yet none proved efficacious on ...

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