Animals and medicine : the contribution of animal experiments to the control of disease / / Jack H. Botting ; edited by Regina M. Botting

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910156256603321
• Autore: Botting Jack H.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Open Book Publishers, 2015; Cambridge, England : , : Open Book Publishers, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-78374-120-1; 2-8218-7634-3; 1-78374-119-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xx, 222 pages) : illustrations (some color); digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 619
• Soggetti: Animal experimentation - History; Laboratory animals; Medicine - Research - History; History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Available through Open Book Publishers.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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 gained has saved countless lives--both human and animal. Unfortunately, those opposed to using animals in research have often employed doctored evidence to suggest that the practice has impeded medical progress. This volume presents the articles Jack Botting wrote for the Research Defence Society News from 1991 to 1996, papers which provided scientists with the information needed to rebut such claims. Collected, they can now reach a wider readership interested in understanding the part of animal experiments in the history of medicine--from the discovery of key vaccines to the advancement of research on a range of diseases, among them hypertension, kidney failure and cancer."--Publisher's website.

The Animal That Therefore I Am / Jacques Derrida ; edited by Marie-Louise Mallet ; translated by David Wills

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780970503321
• Autore: Derrida Jacques
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2008; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2012; ©2008
• ISBN: 0-8232-4687-6; 0-8232-2791-X; 0-8232-2792-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (191 p.)
• Collana: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
• Altri autori (Persone): MalletMarie-Louise
• Disciplina: 194
• Soggetti: Animals (Philosophy); Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: The animal that therefore I am (more to follow) -- But as for me, who am I (following)? -- And say the animal responded -- I don't know why we are doing this.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Animal That Therefore I Am is the long-awaited translation of the complete text of Jacques Derrida?s ten-hour address to the 1997 Cérisy conference entitled ?The Autobiographical Animal,? the third of four such colloquia on his work. The book was assembled posthumously on the basis of two published sections, one written and recorded session, and one informal recorded session.The book is at once an affectionate look back over the multiple roles played by animals in Derrida?s work and a profound philosophical investigation and critique of the relegation of animal life that takes place as a result of the distinction?dating from Descartes?between man as thinking animal and every other living species. That starts with the very fact of the line of separation drawn between the human and the millions of other species that are reduced to a single ?the animal.? Derrida finds that distinction, or versions of it, surfacing in thinkers as far apart as Descartes, Kant, Heidegger, Lacan, and Levinas, and he dedicates extended analyses ; tothe question in the work of each of them.The book?s autobiographical theme intersects with its philosophical analysis through the figures of looking and nakedness, staged in terms of Derrida?s experience when his cat follows him into the bathroom in the morning. In a classic deconstructive reversal, Derrida asks what this animal sees and thinks when it sees this naked man. Yet the experiences of nakedness and shame also lead all the way back into the mythologies of ?man?s dominion over the beasts? and trace a history of how man has systematically displaced onto the animal his own failings or bêtises. The Animal That Therefore I Am is at times a militant plea and indictment regarding, especially, the modern industrialized treatment of animals. However, Derrida cannot subscribe to a simplistic version of animal rights that; fails to follow through, in all its implications, the questions and definitions of ?life? to which he returned in much of his later work.