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Author Guerrini, Anita, 1953- author.

Title Experimenting with humans and animals from Aristotle to CRISPR Anita Guerrini
Edition Second edition
Published Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 2022

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 208 pages) illustrations
Series Johns Hopkins introductory studies in the history of science
Johns Hopkins introductory studies in the history of science.
Contents Bodies of evidence : experimentation and philosophical debate in premodern Europe -- Animals, machines, and morals -- Disrupting god’s plan -- Cruelty and kindness -- The microbe hunters -- Polio and primates -- From nuremberg to CRISPR : new rules and new sciences
Summary "The author discusses key historical episodes in the use of living beings in experiments in science and medicine. This new edition emphasizes a broader understanding of experimentation and has material on prisoners and slaves as experimental subjects, gene therapy, and self-experimentation"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Vivisection -- History
Animal experimentation -- History
Human experimentation in medicine -- History
Vivisección -- Historia
Experimentación animal -- Historia
Experimentación humana en medicina
Animal experimentation
Human experimentation in medicine
Vivisection
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781421444062
1421444062