Useful
WebLinks and books
Relating to issues concerning animal research and animal rights organisations
There are many complex arguments for and against
using animals in medical research. The sites
below provide facts and figures, answers to frequently asked questions, and
in-depth details about events over the years. For your own personal
research.
Stats from the Home Office
http://scienceandresearch.homeoffice.gov.uk/animal-research/publications/statistics/
The
Home Secretary publishes statistics on the use of
animals in scientific procedures in Britain annually.
The site provides the most recent figures (for 2004);
released beginning of December 2005.
A-Z ANIMAL RIGHTS ORGANISATIONS (examples)
Animal Aid
www.animalaid.org.uk
Arkangel for animal liberation
www.arkangelweb.org
The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection
www.buav.org
Europeans
for Medical Progress
www.curedisease.net
FRAME
www.frame.org.uk/
Keep
on Fighting
For animal rights and against
cruel sports
Keep
on Fighting
National Anti Vivisection Society
www.navs.org.uk
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
(PETA)
www.peta.org/
Respect
for Animals
www.respectforanimals.org/
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals (RSPCA)
www.rspca.org.uk/
MEDICAL AND RESEARCH
Association of Medical Research Charities
www.amrc.org.uk
Animals in Medicines Research Information
Centre www.abpi.org.uk/amric/amric.asp
Biomedical Research Education Trust
www.bret.org.uk/
Europeans for Medical Progress
www.curedisease.net
Coalition for Medical Progress
www.medicalprogress.org
Foundation for Biomedical Research
www.fbresearch.org/
Huntingdon Life Sciences
www.huntingdon.com
Medical
Research Council
www.mrc.ac.uk/
Research
Defence Society
www.rds-online.org.uk
Royal Society
www.royalsoc.ac.uk/landing.asp?id=1222
Seriously Ill for Medical Research
www.simr.org.uk
Wellcome Trust
www.wellcome.ac.uk/
SUPPORT FOR VICTIMS
OF EXTREMIST ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS
Victims of Animal
Rights Extremism
www.vare.org.uk`
MISCELLANEOUS
The two medical conditions covered in greatest
detail in the play are asthmaand leukaemia. Organisations
providing further information on these include:
Asthma UK:
www.asthma.org.uk
British Lung Foundation:
www.lunguk.org
Cancer Research UK:
www.cancerresearch.org.uk
Leukaemia Research Fund:
www.lrf.org.ukAsthma UK
The Nuffield Report : The Ethics of Research involving
Animals
Research involving animals has been the subject of
intense debate in the UK and elsewhere. Too often this
debate is presented in a polarised manner, differentiating
only between those ‘for’ or those ‘against’ all
animal research. This is overly simplistic: there is
a continuum of views between these two ends of the
spectrum.
This Report seeks to clarify the debate and aims to
help people think through the ethical issues that are
raised. The ways in which animals are used in different
areas of research are reviewed, including: basic or ‘blue
sky’ research, the development of new medicines
and vaccines, and toxicity testing. The Report makes
practical recommendations for future policy and practice,
relating, among other things, to the use of GM animals,
ways of improving the quality of debate, the implementation
of the Three Rs (Refinement, Reduction and Replacement),
and the responsibilities of researchers, reviewers
and funding bodies.
http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/go/ourwork/animalresearch/publication_178.html
BBC website: Religion & Ethics:
www.bbc.co.uk/religion/ethics/animals/index.shtml
Disclaimer: Y Touring is
not responsible for the contents of external
websites.
BOOKS
In Defense of Animals, Peter
Singer (2005).
Empty Cages ,Tom Regan, Jeffery
Moussaieff Masson (2004).
Animal Rights: a very short introduction ,
David DeGrazia (2002).
Animals in Research for and against
British Library Publication
Sacred Cows and Golden Geese
The Human Cost of Experiments on Animals,
Jane Goodall,
C.Ray Greek, Jean Swingle Greek
Continuum International
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