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Experimenting with Humans and Animals

From Galen to Animal Rights

By: Anita Guerrini

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Experimenting with Humans and Animals

From Galen to Animal Rights

By: Anita Guerrini

Ethical questions about the use of animals and humans in research remain among the most vexing within both the scientific community and society at large. These often rancorous arguments have gone on, however, with little awareness of their historical antecedents. Experimentation on animals and particularly humans is often assumed to be a uniquely modern phenomenon, but the ideas and attitudes that encourage the biological and medical sciences to experiment on living creatures date from the earliest expression of Western thought. Here, Anita Guerrini looks at the history of these practices from vivisection in ancient Alexandria to present-day battles over animal rights and medical research employing human subjects. Guerrini discusses key historical episodes, including the discovery of blood circulation, the development of smallpox and polio vaccines, and recent AIDS research. She also explores the rise of the antivivisection movement in Victorian England, the modern animal rights movement, and current debates over gene therapy.--From publisher description.

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JHU Press

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0801871972

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9780801871979

The Courtiers' Anatomists

Animals and Humans in Louis XIV's Paris

By: Anita Guerrini

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Animals and Humans in Louis XIV's Paris

By: Anita Guerrini

The Courtiers' Anatomists is about dead bodies and live animals in Louis XIV's Paris--and the surprising links between them. Examining the practice of seventeenth-century anatomy, Anita Guerrini reveals how anatomy and natural history were connected through animal dissection and vivisection. Driven by an insatiable curiosity, Parisian scientists, with the support of the king, dissected hundreds of animals from the royal menageries and the streets of Paris. Guerrini is the first to tell the story of Joseph-Guichard Duverney, who performed violent, riot-inducing dissections of both animal and human bodies before the king at Versailles and in front of hundreds of spectators at the King's Garden in Paris. At the Paris Academy of Sciences, meanwhile, Claude Perrault, with the help of Duverney’s dissections, edited two folios in the 1670s filled with lavish illustrations by court artists of exotic royal animals. Through the stories of Duverney and Perrault, as well as those of Marin Cureau de la Chambre, Jean Pecquet, and Louis Gayant, The Courtiers' Anatomists explores the relationships between empiricism and theory, human and animal, as well as the origins of the natural history museum and the relationship between science and other cultural activities, including art, music, and literature.

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University of Chicago Press

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022624833X

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9780226248332

Experimenting with Humans and Animals

From Galen to Animal Rights

By: Anita Guerrini

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From Galen to Animal Rights

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Obesity and Depression in the Enlightenment

The Life and Times of George Cheyne

By: Anita Guerrini

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The Life and Times of George Cheyne

By: Anita Guerrini

Medical doctor George Cheyne, little known today, was among the most quoted men in eighteenth-century Britain. A 450-pound behemoth renowned for his Falstaffian appetites, he nevertheless advocated moderation to his neurotic clientele. Cheyne was an early admirer of Isaac Newton and a writer on mathematics and natural philosophy, yet he also linked science and mysticism in his writings. This inventor of the all-lettuce diet was both an author of learned tomes and, to his patients, a fellow sufferer who struggled with obesity and depression. Scientist and mystic, patient and healer, libertine and scholar, Cheyne embodies the contradictions and obsessions of the Age of Enlightenment. Anita Guerrini reconstructs the ideas, events, and interconnections in Cheyne’s era and shows how Cheyne’s life and work uniquely epitomize the transition between premodern and modern culture.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806131594

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9780806131597

Experimenting with Humans and Animals

From Aristotle to CRISPR

By: Anita Guerrini

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Experimenting with Humans and Animals

From Aristotle to CRISPR

By: Anita Guerrini

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"--

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JHU Press

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1421444054

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9781421444055

Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

By: Sir Michael J. Rutter,Dorothy Bishop,Daniel S. Pine,Stephen Scott,Jim S. Stevenson,Eric A. Taylor,Anita Thapar

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Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

By: Sir Michael J. Rutter,Dorothy Bishop,Daniel S. Pine,Stephen Scott,Jim S. Stevenson,Eric A. Taylor,Anita Thapar

Rutter’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has become an established and accepted textbook of child psychiatry. Now completely revised and updated, the fifth edition provides a coherent appraisal of the current state of the field to help trainee and practising clinicians in their daily work. It is distinctive in being both interdisciplinary and international, in its integration of science and clinical practice, and in its practical discussion of how researchers and practitioners need to think about conflicting or uncertain findings. This new edition now offers an entirely new section on conceptual approaches, and several new chapters, including: neurochemistry and basic pharmacology brain imaging health economics psychopathology in refugees and asylum seekers bipolar disorder attachment disorders statistical methods for clinicians This leading textbook provides an accurate and comprehensive account of current knowledge, through the integration of empirical findings with clinical experience and practice, and is essential reading for professionals working in the field of child and adolescent mental health, and clinicians working in general practice and community pediatric settings.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444358715

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9781444358711

The Courtiers' Anatomists

Animals and Humans in Louis XIV's Paris

By: Anita Guerrini

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Obesity and Depression in the Enlightenment

The Life and Times of George Cheyne

By: Anita Guerrini

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The Life and Times of George Cheyne

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Obesity and Depression in the Enlightenment

The Life and Times of George Cheyne

By: Anita Guerrini

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The Life and Times of George Cheyne

By: Anita Guerrini

Medical doctor George Cheyne, little known today, was among the most quoted men in eighteenth-century Britain. A 450-pound behemoth renowned for his Falstaffian appetites, he nevertheless advocated moderation to his neurotic clientele. Cheyne was an early admirer of Isaac Newton and a writer on mathematics and natural philosophy, yet he also linked science and mysticism in his writings. This inventor of the all-lettuce diet was both an author of learned tomes and, to his patients, a fellow sufferer who struggled with obesity and depression. Scientist and mystic, patient and healer, libertine and scholar, Cheyne embodies the contradictions and obsessions of the Age of Enlightenment. Anita Guerrini reconstructs the ideas, events, and interconnections in Cheyne's era and shows how Cheyne's life and work uniquely epitomize the transition between premodern and modern culture.

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0806132019

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A Room for the Summer

Adventure, Misadventure, and Seduction in the Mines of the Coeur D’Alene

By: Fritz Wolff

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A Room for the Summer

Adventure, Misadventure, and Seduction in the Mines of the Coeur D’Alene

By: Fritz Wolff

In A Room for the Summer, Fritz Wolff takes the reader on a memorable journey into the rough-and-tumble world of hardrock mining, recounting his experiences both above and below ground as an apprentice engineer during the late 1950s. In June 1956, at the age of eighteen, Wolff went to work for the Bunker Hill Company in Kellogg, Idaho, in the Coeur d’Alene region. Arriving in a tired 1939 Chevy coupe, with about twenty dollars in his pocket, Wolff spent three college summers working for Bunker Hill. He learned firsthand the pleasures of camaraderie with fellow workers and the dangers of working underground. Today the hardrock mining industry is all but forgotten. The Bunker Hill Company is known, not because it produced 430 million ounces of silver and not because it provided a living for thousands of families for more than a century, but because it is one of the largest EPA superfund sites. Wolff does not idealize the mining industry; for many workers the conditions were nightmarish. But in spare, lyrical prose, he evokes the intrinsic goodness of a simpler time, when hardworking folks went about their business with courage, humor, and lots of gumption.

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0806180013

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Book's by Anita Guerrini

Experimenting with Humans and Animals

Experimenting with Humans and Animals

The Courtiers' Anatomists

The Courtiers' Anatomists

Experimenting with Humans and Animals

Experimenting with Humans and Animals

Obesity and Depression in the Enlightenment

Obesity and Depression in the Enlightenment

Experimenting with Humans and Animals

Experimenting with Humans and Animals

Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

The Courtiers' Anatomists

The Courtiers' Anatomists

Obesity and Depression in the Enlightenment

Obesity and Depression in the Enlightenment

Obesity and Depression in the Enlightenment

Obesity and Depression in the Enlightenment

A Room for the Summer

A Room for the Summer

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