Writing for the general public, the Paris professor of physiology sets out the case for experiments on animals. He discusses where vivisection must stop, pain and death, the use of anaesthesia, alternatives to vivisection, the discoveries that animal research had made possible in medicine, and the morality of the whole practice.
A frank contribution to a debate that still divides people, by the physiologist who later won a Nobel Prize for work on anaphylaxis. Download the free EPUB.