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Animals and medicine : the contribution of animal experiments to the control of disease /
"Animals and Medicine: The Contribution of Animal Experiments to the Control of Disease offers a detailed, scholarly historical review of the critical role animal experiments have played in advancing medical knowledge. Laboratory animals have been essential to this progress, and the knowledge g...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Open Book Publishers,
©2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of illustrations
- Foreword / Adrian R. Morrison
- Introduction / Regina Botting
- 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 Possibe
- 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.