Animals and medicine : the contribution of animal experiments to the control of disease / Jack H. Botting ; edited by Regina M. Botting
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TextPublisher: Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, [2015]Description: 1 online resource (222 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- 9781783741199
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-209) and index.
List of illustrations
I. Treatment of infectious diseases
Smallpox and after : an early history of the treatment and prevention of infections
Rabies
Lockjaw : prevalent but preventable
Pertussis vaccine, unfairly maligned – at what cost?
Vaccination : the present and future
The conquest of polio and the contribution of animal experiments
Diphtheria : understanding, treatment and prevention
II. Development of life-saving procedures
Development of dialysis to treat loss of kidney function
The contribution of animal experiments to kidney transplantation
Cardiopulmonary bypass : making surgery on the heart
possible
Artificial heart valves : from caged ball to bioprosthesis animals and blood transfusion
III. Drugs for organic diseases
Animal experiments and the production of insulin
Animals and humans : remarkably similar
Early animal experiments in anaesthesia
The control of malignant hypertension
Penicillin and laboratory animals : the animal rights myth
The history of thalidomide
Misleading research or misleading statistics : animal experiments and cancer research
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