From an interest and participation in medicine, a complete reversal in her attitude towards it because of the vivisectional basis of most of it. From Wordnik.com. [Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch] Reference
The black and white model instruction sheets, with their vivisectional horror icons and M. C. Escher-esque complexities of lines, arrows, grafts and chart intersections, are works of art in themselves, suitable for framing. From Wordnik.com. [WFMU's Beware of the Blog:] Reference
If he were to scorn an offer to sell his father for vivisectional purposes, we should applaud enthusiastically his altruism. From Wordnik.com. [If I May] Reference
The work is strictly psychological, not vivisectional; and it is our special purpose to bring animal psychology more in contact with those methods which have found their development in the laboratories for human psychology. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference
Whilst the schools of medicine in this country are as a rule not liable to the charge of vivisectional abuses as regards the higher animals, we cannot altogether acquit them from a rather reckless expenditure of the lives and feelings of cold-blooded creatures. From Wordnik.com. [An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals] Reference
His vivisectional experiments, for instance, demonstrate that the electrical stimulation of a definite spot on the surface of a dog's brain produces movements which we should ordinarily take as expressions of mental states, movements of the front legs or of the tail, movements of barking or whining. From Wordnik.com. [Psychotherapy] Reference
“As medical historian Brandon Reines put it: The net effect of Bernard’s publications on the pancreas was to begin to canonize the vivisectional element of his experimental medicine at the expense of clinical analysis. From Wordnik.com. [He no longer heard the cries of the animals or saw the flowing blood....] Reference
"Professor Owen, one of the first physiological authorities of the present day, observes: ` That no teacher of physiology is justified in repeating any vivisectional experiment, merely to show its known results to his class or to others. From Wordnik.com. [An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals] Reference
Dr. George Wilson, "to accept the assurances of all the expert witnesses who appeared before us, as assurances of their honest conviction that vivisectional or cutting experiments can be, and are carried out without the infliction of pain from the moment the first wound is made. From Wordnik.com. [An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals] Reference
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