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The Use of Animals in Biomedical Research and Teaching: Searching for a Common Goal
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The Use of Animals in Biomedical Research and Teaching: Searching for a Common Goal

JERALD Silverman and Jan F Silverman
Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics, v 8(1), pp 64-72
Jan 1999
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963180199801108
PMID: 9924620
Featured in Collection :   UN Sustainable Development Goals @ Drexel

Abstract

SPECIAL SECTION: ON ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION: SEEKING COMMON GROUND
In the late 1970s, while working in my laboratory at the American Health Foundation, I received a phone call from Henry Spira. Not one for small talk, he did not even bother introducing himself beyond his name. He immediately began questioning me about my studies using the protozoan Tetrahymena thermophila, which I hoped would serve as an alternative to the Draize ocular irritation test. While flattered that someone cared about my work, I was soon lost in confusion and skepticism about the true purpose of his call. Who was Henry Spira? Why did he want to visit my animal facility and why did he want to bring a physician colleague with him? Not only was I naive about the budding opposition to the Draize test, I was equally naive that it was Spira, an ardent animal protectionist, who was leading the fight. This seminal interaction began a friendship that spanned nearly twenty years; a friendship that indelibly changed my perception of nonhuman animals and how I relate to them.

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