Botting, Jack.

Animals and Medicine : The Contribution of Animal Experiments to the Control of Disease. - 1 online resource (246 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Introduction -- I. TREATMENT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES -- 1. Smallpox and After: An Early History of the Treatment and Prevention of Infections -- 2. Rabies -- 3. Lockjaw: Prevalent but Preventable -- 4. Pertussis Vaccine, Unfairly Maligned - At What Cost? -- 5. Vaccination: The Present and Future -- 6. The Conquest of Polio and the Contribution of Animal Experiments -- 7. Diphtheria: Understanding, Treatment and Prevention -- II. DEVELOPMENT OF LIFE-SAVING PROCEDURES -- 8. Development of Dialysis to Treat Loss of Kidney Function -- 9. The Contribution of Animal Experiments to Kidney Transplantation -- 10. Cardiopulmonary Bypass: Making Surgery on the Heart Possible -- 11. Artificial Heart Valves: From Caged Ball to Bioprosthesis -- 12. Animals and Blood Transfusion -- III. DRUGS FOR ORGANIC DISEASES -- 13. Animal Experiments and the Production of Insulin -- 14. Animals and Humans: Remarkably Similar -- 15. Early Animal Experiments in Anaesthesia -- 16. The Control of Malignant Hypertension -- 17. Penicillin And Laboratory Animals: The Animal Rights Myth -- 18. The History of Thalidomide -- 19. Misleading Research or Misleading Statistics: Animal Experiments and Cancer Research -- Index.

9781783741199


Animal experimentation -- History.
Laboratory animals.
Medicine -- Research -- History.


Electronic books.

R853.A53 -- .B688 2015eb

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