Biology 2601A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Body Shop, Jeremy Bentham, Skin Biopsy
2 Dec 2014
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By understanding how animals worked, we can understand how humans work: galen of pergamum: wasn"t allowed to dissect humans. He dissected animals (monkeys) and used this info to inform his clinical decisions (he was a physician at a gladiator school): vivisection: the practice of working on live (rather than dead) organisms. People wanted to know how live organisms work, rather than just how dead organisms are structured. Animals are very expensive, lots of regulation, and they aren"t exactly small humans (drugs may have different effects on them): ethics, descartes (1596-1650) Animals have no souls, minds or reason: rousseau (1712-1778) Animals are sentient and humans are obliged against cruelty. They feel pain we shouldn"t be cruel to animals. Talking a lot of mammals: jeremy bentham (1748-1832) The capacity to suffer should be the benchmark for how we treat other creatures: rise of physiology (and vivisection) in the 19th century, rspca (uk) 1824, aspca (usa) 1866, anti-vivisection society (france)
