The
focus of this leaflet is safety testing
of new drugs, highlighting the dangers
of using animals and the improvements in
safety that could be acheived with more
modern methods.
A booklet examining the impact of animal experimentation on research into cancer, AIDS, neurological disorders and others, as well as outlining more valid human-based methods of research.
Sacred Cows and Golden Geese: The Human
Cost of Experiments on Animals
(Continuum
International Pub 2000)
Very highly recommended - this book should
be compulsory reading in every school and
college where science and medicine are
taught. "This
could prove to be one of the most important
books of our time." Mike Harnett,
Westminster Independent journalist
£15
Specious Science: How Genetics and Evolution
Reveal Why Medical Research on Animals Harms
Humans
(Continuum International Pub 2002)
A
more in-depth analysis, for which some
scientific knowledge is helpful.
£15
What Will We Do If We Don't Experiment
On Animals? Medical Research for the 21st
Century
(Trafford 2004)
No longer will anyone be able to claim
there is "simply no alternative" to
using animals - this book comprehensively
blows that myth apart. It offers a positive
and exciting vision of twenty-first century
research, which will truly deliver benefits
to patients - who have been let down for
decades by animal experimentation.
£15
Brute Science: Dilemmas of Animal Experimentation
by Hugh LaFollette and Niall Shanks
Routledge 1997 (Philosophical Issues in
Science Series)
A good but very academic
book.
"This is as important a book in applied
ethics as one can hope to find. It
mounts an an impressive scientific and
moral case against the current
practice of animal experimentation, demanding
that we either provide an
adequate defense of that practice or radically
change it." -
James P. Sterba
(Philosophy, University of Notre Dame)
£20
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