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Sacred cows and golden geese : the human cost of experiments on animals / C. Ray Greek and Jean Swingle Greek ; foreword by Jane Goodall.
- Title
- Sacred cows and golden geese : the human cost of experiments on animals / C. Ray Greek and Jean Swingle Greek ; foreword by Jane Goodall.
- Author
- Greek, C. Ray
- Publication
- New York : Continuum, 2001.
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- Additional Authors
- Greek, Jean Swingle.
- Description
- 256 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Presents scientific evidence to support the authors' contention that animal experimentation has not led to any significant advances in the treatment of human disease; charges that the practice continues because of a faulty system of funding; and urges scientists, researchers, veterinarians, and physicians to speak out on the failure of animal experimentation as revealed in their own fields.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-251) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- How it all began -- Legislated ineptitude -- The "pathetic illusion" of animal-modeled drugs -- White coat welfare -- Alternatives -- Real origins of new medications -- Cancer, our modern-day plague -- Diseases of the cardiovascular system -- AIDS and humbled science -- Animal organ donors -- Call to action.
- ISBN
- 0826412262 (hc. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^99057157^
- OCLC
- 42798101
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library