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A number of medical issues relate to animals, predominantly the subject of animal experimentation. The use of animal matierial in xenotransplantation is also a continuing clinical and ethical question.
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Animal Experimentation (nucleus - winter 2004)
Human experimentation on animals is a subject that literally evokes violent reactions: 'I don't think you'd have to kill too many [animal researchers]. I think for five lives, ten lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, two million, ten million non-human lives…I am simply saying that...
File 2 (1998) - Animal Experimentation (CMF files)
Using animals to advance scientific knowledge, understand disease, develop new medicines, or test the safety of chemicals is highly controversial. At one extreme people think that there are no moral problems, while at the other, some people justify violence to protect animals. A recent survey found...
Submission from CMF to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics' Working Party on Xenografts - 1/6/1995
Introduction - Christian Medical Fellowship is interdenominational and has as members well over 4,000 British doctors who are Christians and who desire their professional and personal lives to be governed by the Christian faith as revealed in the Bible. We have members in all branches of the profession and through the International Christian...Animal Experimentation (nucleus - winter 1994)
Medical science has a longstanding heritage of animal experimentation. Today we reap undoubted benefits from the efforts of our forefathers, with advances like the Salk vaccine against poliomyelitis standing tribute to the successes of the past. However, as technology improves we must continue to...