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29 novembre 2016
- handle: 10670/1.vbwjfs
- isbn: 9781783741175
- eisbn: 9782821876347
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Jack Howard Botting, « 14. Animals and Humans: Remarkably Similar », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.vbwjfs
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The assertion that animal experimentation is a “failed technology” (1) is the linchpin of the pseudoscientific attack on animal-based biomedical research that has been waged over the last two decades. However, it is an undeniable fact that our knowledge of the function of the organs of the human body stems almost solely from research in other animals. For example, the investigation of the function of the heart by William Harvey (2) was one of the earliest adventures in experimental medicine. ...