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Animal experimentation: the debate continues
Copyright 1997 Scientific American, Inc.
February 1997
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FROM THE EDITORS
4 LETTERS TO THE EDITORS
8 50, 100 AND 150 YEARS AGO
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ANALYSIS
Forum: The Benefits and Ethics of Animal Research
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The ways in which scientists experiment on animals—and the question of whether they should do so at all—have been hotly controversial for decades, inside and outside the laboratory. An animal-loving public despises inhumane abuses of creatures, yet it also values the biomedical progress that results. Researchers defend animal experimentation as a necessary evil but can also be personally troubled by the suffering they cause. These articles crystallize some of the arguments voiced on both sides and look at the forces driving change in animal experimentation. With an introduction by Andrew N. Rowan
Animal Research Is Wasteful and Misleading Neal D. Barnard and Stephen R. Kaufman
Animal Research Is Vital to Medicine Jack H. Botting and Adrian R. Morrison
Trends in Animal Research
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Madhusree Mukerjee, staff writer
IN FOCUS The U.S. is not so boldly going to the final frontier.
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16 PROFILE Ecologist Patricia D. Moehlman defends the misunderstood jackal.
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34 CYBER VIEW How not to wire the poor.
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