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vivisection
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vivisection From the Latin
vivi, living, and
sectio, cutting, vivisection, strictly speaking, means cutting live tissues. As such it could be applied to any surgical procedure, including human operations. In practice the word is often used pejoratively as a synonym for experiments on animals, implying cruelty such as the infliction of operative techniques without the use of an anaesthetic, which even if it were not abhorrent to the investigator would be both impracticable and against the law. The term is sometimes used also to refer to any procedure involving laboratory animals — not only operations that are carried out within the law under anaesthetic, but also investigations that do not involve surgery, such as changing diets or giving injections. In the UK all laboratory procedures on vertebrates (and also on the octopus) are regulated by the Home Office, under the 1986 Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act, which superceded the 1876 Cruelty to Animals Act.
E. M. Tansey
See also
animals in research.
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Fury over churchman's views on vivisection and Nazis
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 5/12/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...The Register of Christians Opposed to Vivisection is writing to senior clergymen and women...insistence on furthering the practice of vivisection, it is actually less justifiable than...defenceless humans for human research, vivisection entails extrapolating from other species...
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Vivisection: policy vacuum breeds violence; the British Union for the abolition of Vivisection has long campaigned to halt animal testing. Here, Michelle Thew chief executive responds to a recent piece by the Research Defence Society. (Comment).
Magazine article from: Chemistry and Industry; 10/21/2002; 700+ words
; ...Research Defence Society, the pro-vivisection lobby group in London. employs the...inconsistent if they did not, This is because vivisection itself is a form of violence. That...definitions of violence. Moreover, vivisection is a particularly unpleasant form of...
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Vivisection equals medical and scientific fraud
Newspaper article from: The Press; 9/8/2003; 371 words
; ...Grimwood (August 30) asks "what is the alternative" to vivisection. Professor Pietro Croce states in Vivisection or Science? -- A Choice to Make: "There are no alternatives to vivisection, because any method intended to replace it should have...
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Pet vivisection advocacy may be hoax
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/2/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...and there's a possibility American Vivisection Defense's enterprise may be illegal...Stanley 3d, a spokesman for American Vivisection Defense, to be sure that he is not...that runs the 900 hot line for American Vivisection Defense pulled the plug on the service...
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Group's patron to quit over views on vivisection and Nazis
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 5/13/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...of the row over comparisons between vivisection and the Nazi concentration camps is...the Register of Christians Opposed to Vivisection, while all others named on the group...failed to condemn the comparison between vivisection and the holocaust. British Jews have...
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 "Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)")
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Vivisection makes us cowards
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK); 10/9/2007; 461 words
; ...t like the occupation of vivisection (and some don't even know...Those who acquiesce to vivisection - whether it is on an animal...culpability and is morally weak. Vivisection makes cowards out of mankind...ll change your mind about vivisections being valid in medical experiments...
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Vivisection campaign group is torn in two
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/7/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection is on the verge of an irreparable split...confrontational and more conciliatory approach to vivisection Saturday's row erupted when Mr Johnson...constitution by softening its stance on vivisection. Louise O'Gara, an executive committee...
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The vivisection of the Snark.(fictional animal )(Report)
Magazine article from: Victorian Poetry; 6/22/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...his analytic skills to the subject of vivisection. Anatomizing the logic which justified...nonsensical response to the agonies of the vivisection laboratory being vividly evoked in contemporary...social and scientific context, the vivisection controversy in which its author was...
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Pietro Croce, Vivisection or Science? An Investigation into Testing Drugs and Safeguarding Health.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Islam & Science; 6/22/2005; 700+ words
; Pietro Croce, Vivisection or Science? An Investigation into...rather than the ethical aspects of vivisection. Here, the prominent Italian doctor...of live animal experimentation (vivisection) from the scientific, methodological...
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 "The People (London, England)")
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ANIMAL TEST TRIUMPH; Campaign against vivisection; We put Blair on spot 120,000 back crusade 100 MPs support us.(News)
Newspaper article from: The People (London, England); 7/11/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...the Sunday People's amazing anti-vivisection campaign. The breakthrough was sparked...hold a Royal Commission into animal vivisection. Carla Lane, who penned TV's Butterflies...the Liver Birds, said: "It is time vivisection was stopped once and for all. "People...
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Vivisection
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
Vivisection Vivisection originally meant the dissection of a live animal, usually for the...word came also to mean the use of a live animal in any experiment. Vivisection, especially in its broader meaning, is a time-tested tool that...
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vivisection
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
vivisection , dissection of living animals for experimental...advisory or regulatory roles in the practice of vivisection. Private organizations in the United States concerned with vivisection include the American Society for the Prevention...
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Human Subjects in Medical Research
Book article from: American Decades
...experimentation on animals soon joined this debate. Human Vivisection The word vivisection means to cut open a living human or animal. Around the turn of the century the term human vivisection came to mean any experimental procedure that...
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Antivivisectionism
Book article from: American Decades
ANTIVIVISECTIONISM Vivisection and Experimental Medicine Virtually...twentieth centuries were based on vivisection — the experimental use...conditions. The most successful forms of vivisection began with the French physiologist...
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Research Animals
Book article from: Animal Rights
...alive at the time, the procedure is called vivisection. However, the term "vivisection" has come to be used to refer to all invasive...Henry S. Salt writes that "the practice of vivisection is revolting to the human conscience, even...
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