What Will We Do If We Don't Experiment On Animals? Medical Research for the Twenty-first Century [Paperback]

Jean Swingle Greek (Author), C. Ray Greek (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 6, 2006

Drs. Greek have written 2 books on the invalidity of the animal model in biomedical research. This book answers the question: "What will we do if we don't use animals?"

Product Details

• Paperback: 262 pages
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing (July 6, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1412020581
• ISBN-13: 978-1412020589
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,071,400 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

C. Ray Greek received his MD from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1985 and completed a residency in anesthesiology in 1989 at the University of Wisconsin. He has taught at the medical schools of the University of Wisconsin and Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. He has performed research with animals and humans. He is the president and co-founder of Americans For Medical Advancement (AFMA). Greek enjoys scuba diving, swimming with pinnipeds and cetaceans, interacting with African wildlife and photographing same. While he enjoys those activities, what he actually does with his time is take care of all the animals Jean (his veterinary wife) brings home.

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35 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hope for Humanity, April 29, 2004

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Rick Bogle (Madison, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: What Will We Do If We Don't Experiment On Animals? Medical Research for the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)

The Greeks' newest contribution to the growing debate regarding the most ethical use of limited resources for medical research will be unpopular with the animal-model community. `Unpopular' may be an understatement; they are going to hate it.

Whenever the question of using animals in research comes up you can be certain that the animal researchers and their supporters will accuse you of hating children if you criticize their cruelties or even their science. "What else do you suggest?" is their common challenge, "should we experiment or little children, or just let them die?" Indeed, it is in their financial interests to cast any critic as a callous lout. But now, the answers are much clearer.

In What Will We Do If We Don't Experiment On Animals? the Greeks explain the failures and risks of basing medicines for humans on the results of experiments on other species. Apparently, the animal researchers are content to let children die from a new drug just as long as it was first developed for and tested on animals. But this is well known already.

The new ground in the Greeks newest book is the compilation of modern research techniques that really are providing new insights into human disease and offering potential new cures. Readers are given a tour of truly modern medical research that is grounded in a thorough appreciation of the underlying genetics behind disease and our individual responses to drug therapies.

Unlike much of the traditional antivivisectionist literature, the Greeks write from the perspective that we have learned something about human biology from studying animals even if we could have learned the same things in other ways. More importantly, they point out that we no longer wonder what a heart does, and that today we are seeking to understand the roles of the proteins coded for by each organism's unique genetic code. The subtleties that account for differences between species are the same subtleties that explain why a rat, a dog, and a human will each respond differently at the molecular level to any particular drug.

But, the real value in the book is not its power to point out the failures and ugly profiteering of the animal modelers, but to give the reader hope by pointing out the growing number of research efforts underway based on modern science. The reliance on the most modern of methods accounts for the fact that an ever-growing number of researchers interested in curing and preventing human disease have turned to non-animal methods based on human biology.

For anyone with an interest in leading edge biomedical science, this book will probably become a well-worn reference.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must Read, December 8, 2008

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J. Martinez - See all my reviews
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This review is from: What Will We Do If We Don't Experiment On Animals? Medical Research for the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)

Drs. Greek and Greek release another fine book that will help turn the tide away from the ineffectual and barbaric pratice of animal research. They discuss how cutting-edge science, be it computer models, nanotechnology, or in vitro research, trumps using beings that only superficially resemble humans. Now the vivisection opponent has a new weapon in his/her arsenal when asked what recourse do we have if we don't use animals in research.

5 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Challenge for Vivisectors, February 26, 2009

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Matthew DeLuca (Tulsa, OK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: What Will We Do If We Don't Experiment On Animals? Medical Research for the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)

I am issuing a challenge to vivisectors (animal murderers and abusers, disguised as "scientists"):

If you believe in "experiments" so much, volunteer YOURSELVES to be used in the experiments.

This would have two benefits:

1. Innocent souls get to live.

2. The results will actually be accurate, unlike the ones obtained from torturing and murdering animals.

Of course, the cowardly vivisectors arent going to accept my challenge, because it would mean that THEY are going to suffer and die, and while the hypocrites have no problem torturing and murdering their fellow living souls, they would never allow it to be done to themselves.

Just my opinion.