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Animal Subjects in Experimentation
Animal Behavior | PSYC 443 |
Bachelor of Science in Psychology | Fall 2010 |
Abstract
Animal testing in research is a complex issue that has a variety of viewpoints. The process itself involves
administering drugs and other medical treatments, such as experimental surgeries, to animal subjects to test their
safety and practicality for human applications. In some cases medications and surgeries are tested on healthy
animals to determine how they react. In other cases, animals are intentionally harmed to facilitate determining the
effectiveness of the treatment. In those instances the harm to the animal can be physical, such as dislocating
joints, or it can be biological, such as injecting an animal with a disease for which a potential treatment will
eventually be administered.
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