Vivisection experiments fall into three categories: animal testing (attempts to test the toxicity of drugs and substances), experimental research on animals (study of human disease), dissection and Practice Surgery (teaching medical students anatomy and surgical techniques). ... The three "Rs" are replacement of animals in a scientific procedure, they reduce the number of animals used in a procedure, and/or they refine a procedure, so the animals experience less pain. ... The models need to go through simple procedures to analyze their validity as models of the human condition, in which will ...

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The same tests are performed on every medical procedure that is introduced to surgeons. ... They are burnt, scalded, poisoned and starved, given electric shocks and addicted to drugs, they are subjected to near freezing temperatures, reared in total darkness from birth and deliberately inflicted with disease like arthritis, cancer, diabetes, oral infections, stomach ulcers, syphilis, herpes and AIDS, (Sharpe, 13) they also have there eyes surgically removed, their brains damaged and the bones broken. ...

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Animals are also used for the development of new drugs and surgical techniques (Singer 19). ... Such tests help determine if human beings might benefit from the new drugs or procedures. ... The first argument against animal testing is the extremely cruel and unnecessary procedures they have to experience. ... Therefore, these tests consist of injecting a disease into the animal, letting it develop and form, and then trying to treat the condition with new experimental drugs and procedures. ...

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There is a lengthy list of discoveries and technologies that have been attributed to work with animals, such as surgical techniques, diagnostic procedures, and medical treatments. ... When it comes to the treatment of animals used in medical research, various public and private organizations have designed procedures for the care and use of these animals. ...

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