Experimenting with Humans and Animals: From Galen to Animal Rights - Anita Guerrini - Google Books

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Experimentation on animals and particularly humans is often assumed to be a uniquely modern phenomenon. But the ideas and attitudes that encourage the biological and medical sciences to experiment on living creatures date from the earliest expression of…