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Animal Experimentation

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 185 Collections and/or Records:

Saving Precious Lives, 1930

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Identifier: Coll-1618/2/1/3/2/32
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A leaflet which addresses the statement, "my doctor tells me that I would vivisect a dog to save the life of my wife, so I cannot blame physiologists when they vivisect one to save the lives on many men, women and children". Pulished by the Victoria Street Society for the Protection of Animals from vivisection, United with the International Association for the Total Suppression of Vivisection.

Dates: 1930

School-Children and Vivisection (part 1), 1957

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Identifier: Coll-1618/2/1/3/2/108
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An article from the publication "Animals' Defender and Anti-Vivisection News", titled "School Children and Vivisection (part 1) by M. Beddow Bayly. The article regards using animals in experiments at school.

Dates: 1957

Scottish Monkey Appeal, 1980

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Identifier: Coll-1618/2/1/3/1/6
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An appeal leaflet from the International Primate Protection League, Scottish Anti-vivisection society, the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection and the St Andrew Animal Fund, campaigning for the safe release of monkeys from Stirling University, which were no longer required.

Dates: 1980

Secret Savagery, 1969

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Identifier: Coll-1618/2/1/3/1/15
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A reprint of an article from the Sunday Pictorial Newspapers (from issues 11th, 18th, and 25th December, 1960), titled "Secret Savagery". The article contains information on experiments which cause pain to living animals.

It was reprinted by the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection in 1969 and withdrawn from publication 1st May 1979.

This article contains graphic descriptions of animal experimentation.

Dates: 1969

Selection experiments with hill sheep, 1967

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Identifier: Coll-1362/1/247
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Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1967 - 1968. Volume 5 of 19.

Dates: 1967

Selective fertiization at the T-locus of the mouse, 1960

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Identifier: Coll-1362/1/102
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Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1958 - 1961. Volume 2 of 19.

Dates: 1960

Should we stop this research NOW?, 1960

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Identifier: Coll-1618/2/1/3/1/70
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An article, written by Craig McGregor and Bill Hopkins, reprinted by the SSPV with permission of Oldham's Press Ltd "Today", 21st May 1960. The article concerns the welfare of animals being used for medical experiments relating to germ warfare.

Dates: 1960

Some Expressions of Medical Opinion on the Vivisection of Dogs, 1935

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Identifier: Coll-1618/2/1/3/2/49
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A pamphlet distributed by the National Canine Defence League, No. 305, titled "Some Expressions of Medical Opinion on the Vivisection of Dogs".

The pamphlet contains opinions of people working in the medical field who oppose the use of dogs in animal experimentation.

One of the pamphlets is stamped with the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection.

Dates: 1935

Speciesism, 1970

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Identifier: Coll-1618/2/1/3/1/18
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A leaflet, written by R.D. Ryder, about the double standards when it comes to experiments on humans and animals. The leaflet urges readers to contact their MPs etc. about ending animal experimentation.

The leaflet was withdrawn by SSPV April, 1976

Contains graphic image and descriptions.

Dates: 1970

Speciesism: The Ethics of Vivisection, 1974

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Identifier: Coll-1618/2/1/3/1/59
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"Speciesism: The Ethics of Vivisection", is based on a paper, read at a meeting of medical students of the London Medical Group, 5th November 1974, by author and animal rights advocate Richard D. Ryder.

The pamphlet discusses issues around the pain inflicted on animals and why animals are used for experiments.

This pamphlet was withdrawn from publication April 1990

Dates: 1974