Animal Vivisection
(animal testing)
History
can be dated back to 400 years ago
In the 17th century, William Harvey conducted a very famous animal experiment which demonstrated that how blood circulates through the body
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Cons/Disadvantage
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1. History
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- Animal vivisection has made a big contribution to mankind, especially medical development
2. Pros: contributions
Ethics issues
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- it also has the cons which relates to animal's living rights
3. Cons: disadvantages
-alternative technology/methods are being developed
- So, both animal testing and new alternative technology need further development
- silicon organ chips
- computer modeling such as "Synthetic Skin", "Brain modeling"
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What is Animal Vivisection?
Animal vivisection is defined as surgery conducted on living animals for experimental purposes
For example:
1. drug test
2. make up test
3. household test
4. and etc...
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Pros/Contributions
- make safe products, before they are launched in the market for human consumption.
100 million animals are used worldwide, which is about 274,000 per day, or three every second (Vivisection Information Network, 2012).
- is an integral part of medical research
- helped develop vaccines for many life-threatening diseases and testing organ transplantation rejection
- helped in the refinement of procedures, related to measuring the blood pressure, pacemaker technology and the perfection of the heart and lung disease treatments.