'Vivisection' is any experimental cutting of, or surgery on, a living organism. Surgery (from the χειρουργική cheirourgikē, via chirurgiae meaning "hand work" is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental More broadly, the term is often used today to describe any experiment upon living animals. [1] In this context the term is preferred by those opposed to research using animals, whereas scientists typically use "animal experimentation. "[2][3]
- For animal experiments, see Animal testing. Animal testing or animal research is the use of non-human Animals in scientific experimentation.
- For the history of animal experiments, see History of animal testing. The history of animal testing goes back to the writings of the Greeks in the third and fourth centuries BCE with Aristotle (384-322 BCE and Erasistratus
- For experiments on human beings, see Human subject research. Human subject research (HSR or human subject use (HSU involves the use of human beings as research subjects
- For the antivivisection movement, see Animal rights. "Animal liberation" redirects here for other uses see Animal liberation (disambiguation.
Notes
- ^ "Vivisection", Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2007. Also see Croce, Pietro. Vivisection or Science? An Investigation into Testing Drugs and Safeguarding Health. Zed Books, 1999, and "FAQs: Vivisection", British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection.
- ^ Paixao, RL; Schramm, FR. Ethics and animal experimentation: what is debated? Cad. Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro, 2007
- ^ Yarri, Donna. The Ethics of Animal Experimentation, Oxford University Press U. S. , 2005
Dictionary
vivisection
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- The action of cutting, surgery or other invasive treatment of a living organism for the purposes of physiological or pathological scientific investigation.
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