Animal Experimentation
Animal Experimentation | The Animal Rights Movement Threatens Medical Progress
Frederick K. Goodwin is a research professor of psychiatry at George Washington University and director of the university’s Psychopharmacology Research Center. He also directs the university’s Center on Neuroscience, Medical Progress & Society and is the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health.
Actions taken by animal rights organizations to end biomedical research threaten to undermine medical progress. In fact, many important breakthroughs in the medical field, such as the use of lithium for the treatment of manic-depression, would not have occurred...
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- Introduction
- Animals Are Entitled to Rights
- Animals Are Not Entitled to Rights
- Animal Testing Is Essential for Medical Research
- Animal Testing Is Not Essential for Medical Research
- Animal Testing Is Cruel and Does Not Benefit Medical Research
- Animal Testing Is Becoming More Humane
- The Animal Rights Movement Threatens Medical Progress
- Using Animals as Organ Donors May Save Human Lives
- Using Animals as Organ Donors Endangers Human Lives
- Experimentation on Nonhuman Primates Is Vital to Medicine
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- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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