Landmarks in Animal Based Research Key Moral Statements
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1875 Alexander Pope Samuel Johnson Marshall Hall 1688-1744 1709-1784 The UK House of Commons was presented with a Bill aimed at regulating pioneered welfare issues from within vivisection, and a contrary Bill allowing for a regulation-free environment science by proposing that physiologi- resulting in the appointment of a first Royal Commission of Inquiry to cal procedures be regulated in a way investigate laboratory procedures involving animals which found no that took into consideration the instances of animal abuse but recommended that animal experimentation English essayists and poets who argued that animals may feel pain and that suffering of animals. be regulated. The Cruelty to Animals Act received royal assent in 1876. this ought to be taken into consideration. 1790 Robert Boyle Robert Hooke Richard Lower Humphrey Primatt 1776 1824 Charles Darwin 1627-1690 1635-1703 1631-1691 extended the principle of justice beyond the UK Royal Society Publication of The sphere of humans, to include all animals. The for the prevention Descent of Man and anthropocentric world view was being challenged of Cruelty to Selection in Relation by the notion that animals ought to be protected Animals founded. to Sex and Expression The first people to record their genuine concern for the welfare of some of their experimental for their own sake. Whether an animal had a soul of the Emotions in subjects were professional physiologists based on a moral objection to perceived cruelty or not was no longer an issue. Man and Animals. 1871 1906 St Thomas Aquinas Rene Descartes Jeremy Bentham August Comte 1847 1871 Continuous lobbying by anti-vivisection societies declared in his Summa Theologiae that exaggerated the Christian centered The beginnings of the theory Development of Positivism: RSPCA changed its British Association for the resulted in the Second Royal Commission on humans were unique and opposed the prevalent humanist attitude into a of utilitarianism. Shift from an differentiation between position to objection Advancement of Science Vivisection. However, due to medical advances use of data based on vivisection on the mechanistic philosophy, the concept of anthropocentric world view empirical investigation to painful procedures published guidelines that aimed to described and the advent of World War I which grounds that all other animals were beast-machine, which provided towards animals’ capacity to and ethical values. being performed on minimize suffering and discourage focused the UK society’s attention in other incapable of rationality because they a convenient ideology for early suffer. animals. conducting experiments of directions, the public were less keen to condemn possessed no mind. vivisectionists. dubious scientific merit. 1260 1595 1748 1798 all experimentation. Crawford Long 1902 Discovered the Extraction anaesthetic of the first properties of hormone. ether. 1842 Claude Bernard 1882 1920 Demonstrated that a precise Discovery of bacterium Frederik Banting approach to experimentation responsible for tuberculosis. must involve the study of one Charles Best parameter while holding other Discovery of diphtheria variables constant. antitoxin which reduced Isolation of insulin. infant mortality from 1813 40% to 10% . Galen of Pergamum, Andreas Vesalius William Harvey Francois Magendie William Morton 1909 a Greek physician, catalogued Illustrated public lectures of Demonstrated the circulation of blood using Determined that many bodily Further work on the Chemical experiments performed by Alexandrian anatomy with systematic animals, extrapolated the results to humans and processes resulted from the anaesthetic properties of treatment physicians from 300BC, on differences non-human vivisection. showed the value of vivisection for comparative cofunctioning of several organs. ether led to technically for syphilis. between sensory and motor nerves and physiological investigation. This was the basis of modern sophisticated surgical tendons. physiology and set in train procedures. numerous invasive animal-based 129 - 199 1514 - 1564 1628 1783 experiments. 1847 0125 150 175 200 12501275 1300 13251500 1525 1550 1575 1600 1625 1650 1675 1700 1725 1750 1775 18001825 18501875 1900 1925 1950 Landmarks in Animal Based Research Key Moral Statements.