noun
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The action of cutting, surgery or other invasive treatment of a living organism for the purposes of physiological or pathological scientific investigation.
Examples of vivisection in a Sentence
It also encouraged vivisection - a practice common with Descartes himself.
Some dogs are sent on a one-way trip to the vivisection laboratory.
I am not anti-science, but I do believe that vivisection is not the way forward.
Now begins the next phase in the fight to end vivisection.
However, this stock needs to be replenished, and wild primates are still being caught for the vivisection business.
In 1871 the Anatomical Act of 1832 was amended; and in 1876 the Vivisection Act was passed, a measure which investigators engaged in the medical sciences of physiology and pathology resented as likely to prevent in England the advance of knowledge of living function, both in its normal balance and in its aberrancies, and moreover to slacken that habit of incessant reference of propositions to verification which is as necessary to the clinical observer as to the experimentalist.
The vivisection industry hired a public relations firm to resist the proposal.
However, in our opinion, the IAMS vivisection experiments have involved among the highest levels of pain and suffering.
You should then be able to recruit them to the anti vivisection movement.
Companion dogs and cats have been stolen or fraudulently obtained by licensed animal dealers and sold to vivisection facilities.
Victims of Vivisection In order to further increase profits, the racing industry funds research into welfare problems created by racing.
Bad Science There are many reasons to oppose vivisection.
The notes are from readers instructing me to reply to letters supporting vivisection which have appeared in their local newspapers.
Most human vivisection takes place in the " third world " or on vulnerable people, such as Pongo, in the West.
The nightmare scenario of Cambridge becoming the primate vivisection capital of Europe had ended.
Also, Scientific anti- vivisection for comprehensive, referenced medical information.
However the opinion of later generations may stand in respect of the Vivisection Act, it will surely appear to them that the other acts, largely based upon the results of experimental methods, strengthening and consolidating the medical profession, and fortifying the advance of medical education, led directly to a fundamental change in the circumstances of the people in respect of health.
There was no lack of attempts to do so; the methods varied, experiments were made as on a subject for vivisection; the object of the experiment suffers under it, but the method is perfected step by step.
And in the following year he was re-elected professor at Oxford and resumed his lectures; but increasing brain excitement, and indignation at the establishment of a laboratory to which vivisection was admitted, led him to resign his Oxford career, and he retired in 1884 to Brantwood, which he never left.
All of the monkeys are to be sold to vivisection laboratories.
The Cruelty to Animals Act 1876 was passed for the purpose of regulating the practice of vivisection.
Instead he told them what he thought about the half-built vivisection lab down the road.
Every known breed of dog can be found on these farms, including up to a few years ago beagles destined for vivisection labs.
The inability to defend vivisection was also illustrated by a letter included on the British Medical Journal website.
I have heard anti vivisectionists claim that they want to stop vivisection from within the system.
Opposition to vivisection on medical grounds is growing, and is in direct proportion to awareness of the facts.
Second, vivisection is probably the best and longest established form of organized, officially acknowledged animal cruelty.
Many are killed through shooting, drowning or being sold to vivisection labs or by being abandoned.
He was a traveller, a linguist, well versed in Scandinavian literature and philology, the author of mystical poems entitled Improvisations from the Spirit (1857), a social and medical reformer, and a convinced opponent of vivisection and also of vaccination.