Animal Experimentation: Cruelty or Science? (Issues in Focus) [Library Binding]

Nancy Day (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up | Series: Issues in Focus

Discusses issues surrounding animal experimentation, including animal rights, medical breakthroughs, and alternatives to animal experimentaion.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 6 Up?Day offers a history of animal experimentation, and why it was done, along with examples. She follows this with a chapter stating the case against such experimentation, and another propounding scientific reasons for it. She includes a discussion on human experimentation, including the notorious Tuskegee experiment on syphilitics, which was conducted by the federal government with a cold disregard for the people involved. Explaining some of the new technologies currently under development, the author offers some possible alternatives, the least techological of all being simply stopping. She avoids using the more lurid pictures of animals under experimentation, but does indicate that some procedures cause more fear and pain than experimenters may like to admit. Calmly, almost stolidly, Day attempts to present both sides in a dispassionate text, leaving it up to readers to make their own determination using their own standards. Many of the more recent books on animal rights treat experimentation as just one phase of the unthinking abuse of animals by humans, such as Charles Patterson's Animal Rights (Enslow, 1993) and Laurence Pringle's The Animal Rights Controversy (Harcourt, 1989). This book has a tighter focus. Food for uncomfortable thought.?Patricia Manning, Eastchester Public Library, NY
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

Gr. 7-12. Are laboratory experiments on animals a cruel and unnecessary procedure, or a vital part of medical research? This Issues in Focus title tackles a thorny question. Day describes the typical uses for experiments: basic research about biological systems; training for surgeons; and testing for new drugs and other products. "Virtually every advance in medical science in the 20th century . . . has been achieved . . . through the use of animals in laboratory experiments," an AMA White Paper notes. Animal-rights and animal-welfare activists disagree, holding that animal suffering is unconscionable and that many of the experiments can be replaced by other tests. Day offers a wealth of information both pro and con experimentation. Chapters on the history of experimentation, human medical experiments, and some possible alternatives to animal testing--including cell culture research and computer programs that simulate biological processes--round out the book nicely. Black-and-white photos accompany the generally smooth, although sometimes repetitive, text. Students interested in the subject and those needing information for reports will find the book useful. Glossary; notes; bibliography. Anne O'Malley

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 11 and up
  
• Library Binding: 128 pages
• Publisher: Enslow Publishers (July 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0894905783
• ISBN-13: 978-0894905780
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,193,048 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Nancy Day (Sakaduski) is the author of more than 100 articles and 15 books. Nancy has a B.A. in Communications from the University of Maryland and an Executive M.B.A. from Loyola College. She currently resides in Chadds Ford, PA, where she is working on the third edition of Scientific English (as co-author).

Nancy is President of Sakaduski Marketing Solutions, Inc., a consulting firm that works with companies in the dental industry.

In addition to her business and writing activities, Nancy is heavily involved in community service. She is the Chester County Master Gardener Coordinator;
serves on the Board of Directors and is Vice President of the Center for the Creative Arts, an arts center in Yorklyn Delaware; is a member of the Resource Development Committee for 4-H Creating Community Networks, an organization that provides outreach services in at-risk neighborhoods; and is on the Board of Directors of the Sanderson Museum in Chadds Ford.

AWARDS: Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Award for Nonfiction, 1995, for article "Mapping the Mind"; Best Social Studies Book of the Year designation from Society of School Librarians International, 2003 CALIFORNIA COLLECTION.