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"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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Botting, Jack H.
Autor Corporativo: Open Book Publishers
Otros Autores: Botting, Regina M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, ©2015.
Temas:
Animal experimentation > History.
Laboratory animals.
Medicine > Research > History.
Animals, Laboratory
Expérimentation animale > Histoire.
Animaux de laboratoire.
Médecine > Recherche > Histoire.
History of medicine.
Medicine.
Medicine: general issues.
Public health and preventive medicine.
MEDICAL > Laboratory Medicine.
Animal experimentation.
Medicine > Research.
History.
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.

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