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Experimentation on animals arouses intense emotions. Some refuse to discuss the grounds for such a practice: they believe that when it comes to protecting human health, no questions are to be asked which might delay research. Others, on the contrary, and among them the ecologists, maintain that the practice is totally unfounded in the scientific order and see in it one of the signs of the moral deterioration of western civilization. In fact, this is a concept which decides on its lack of utility or its utility without relying on any serious Study.
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Chanteur, J. (1990). Experimentation on animals: Animals as machines and animals as fetishes. In: Garattini, S., van Bekkum, D.W. (eds) The Importance of Animal Experimentation for Safety and Biomedical Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1904-4_6
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