Review article
Historical development and ethical considerations of vivisectionist and antivivisectionist movement
Bruno Atalić
orcid.org/0000-0003-0741-9632
; Clinical Hospital Merkur, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
This review presents historical development and ethical considerations of vivisectionist and antivivisectionist movement. In this respect it shows that both movements were not just characteristic for the past one hundred years, but that they were present since the beginning of medical development. It, thus, re-evaluates the accepted notions of the earlier authors. On this track it suggests that neither movement was victorious in the end, as it could be seen from the current regulations of animal experiments. Finally, it puts both movements into a wider context by examining the connection between antivivisectionism and utilitarianism on the one hand, and vivisectionism and experimentalism on the other hand.
Keywords
vivisectionism; antivivisectionism; bioethics; utilitarianism; experimentalism
Hrčak ID:
93525
URI
Publication date:
1.11.2012.
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