Safer Medicines

The focus of this leaflet is safety testing of new drugs, highlighting the dangers of using animals and the improvements in safety that could be acheived with more modern methods.

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A Critical Look at Animal Experimentation

A booklet examining the impact of animal experimentation on research into cancer, AIDS, neurological disorders and others, as well as outlining more valid human-based methods of research.

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Sacred Cows and Golden Geese: The Human Cost of Experiments on Animals

(Continuum International Pub 2000)

Very highly recommended - this book should be compulsory reading in every school and college where science and medicine are taught. "This could prove to be one of the most important books of our time." Mike Harnett, Westminster Independent journalist

£15

Specious Science: How Genetics and Evolution Reveal Why Medical Research on Animals Harms Humans

(Continuum International Pub 2002)

A more in-depth analysis, for which some scientific knowledge is helpful.

£15

What Will We Do If We Don't Experiment On Animals? Medical Research for the 21st Century

(Trafford 2004)

No longer will anyone be able to claim there is "simply no alternative" to using animals - this book comprehensively blows that myth apart. It offers a positive and exciting vision of twenty-first century research, which will truly deliver benefits to patients - who have been let down for decades by animal experimentation.

£15

Brute Science: Dilemmas of Animal Experimentation

by Hugh LaFollette and Niall Shanks
Routledge 1997 (Philosophical Issues in Science Series)

A good but very academic book.

"This is as important a book in applied ethics as one can hope to find. It mounts an an impressive scientific and moral case against the current practice of animal experimentation, demanding that we either provide an adequate defense of that practice or radically change it." - James P. Sterba (Philosophy, University of Notre Dame)

£20