antivivisectionist

• “The point at issue being plainly whether he is a rascal or not, he not only insists that the real point is whether some hotheaded antivivisectionist is a liar (which he proves by ridiculously unscientific assumptions as to the degree of accuracy attainable in human statement), but never dreams of offering any scientific evidence by his own methods.”

  The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors

• “It is open, of course, to an antivivisectionist to deny the right of science to profit by the exploitation of animals, but this is not the position of a large number who seek only to prevent the cruelty which has often accompanied it.”

  An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals

• “How could Dr. Keen have dreamed for a moment that any antivivisectionist would have signed such a recantation?”

  An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals

• “No harm can come, and I believe much good would come, from our perfect readiness to accede to, nay, to advocate, the antivivisectionist desire to limit all experimentations to chartered institutions or to such private investigators as might be selected by a properly chosen authority ....”

  An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals

• “Abernethy was by no means an antivivisectionist; he insisted upon the utility of certain demonstrations, but he was profoundly opposed to those cruelties of research which, in our day, by the modern school of physiologists, are either forgotten or condoned. curiously enough, one of his strongest utterances against such cruelty was made in one of his lectures on physiology.”

  An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals

• “Instead of taking the position of the antivivisectionist that ALL scientific investigations involving the use of animals, should be legally prohibited, it maintains that distinctions may, and should, be drawn, and that only the abuses of vivisection should be condemned by law.”

  An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals

• “No antivivisectionist would accept the suggestion of a single experiment.”

  An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals

• “He cannot be regarded as an antivivisectionist, for he repeatedly states that to painless experiments upon animals no objection exists.”

  An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals

• “It is particularly valuable, because Dr. Bigelow was never an antivivisectionist, if by that term we mean one who is opposed to all experiments upon animals.”

  An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals

• “In fact, it was an antivivisectionist sympathizer, British playwright George Bernard Shaw, who first introduced the term "human guinea pig" in the early twentieth century, to make clear the vivisector's equation of human and animal subjects (p. xiv).”

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