Animals in Medical Research

Man and mouse: animals in medical research

well. Endemic disease is left aside in favour of the more dramatic and better documented epidemic diseases. The care of the mentally ill, chronically handicapped, and old receive relatively little attention. We are left wondering about Groningen's typicality, and the volume does not seek to enlighten us much on this. Yet Stadsbelang en standsbesef compensates for any gaps by its overall sweep w...

Man and mouse. Animals in medical research

concerned with how to approach a scientific enquiry. The manuscript also shows Bacon at work, crossing out, amending, and adding to his amanuensis' copy, and its physical state mirrors the tentative, emergent nature of Bacon's thinking, being, as it was, a stepping-stone to the finished Historia vitae et mortis. Rees has produced an excellent introduction and, with Christopher Upton's help, mad...

Man and Mouse: Animals in Medical Research

The neurosciences and neurology seem fearsome adversaries to many medical students. They are rapidly changing disciplines, and seem unnaturally beholden to vocabulary, concepts, and techniques far removed from those associated with the study of other organ systems. It is in an area such as this that a book aimed at students making the transition between the classroom and the wards can be most u...

Gnotobiotic animals in nutrition research

Rccognition that creatures in a conventional environment carry a large burden of metabolically active micro-organisms in their gastro-intestinal tracts makes untenable the classic concept of nutrition as a simple relationship between the diet and its consumer. Instead it must be regarded as a series of complicated interactions between the diet, its consumer and his resident microflora. T o unde...

Working with animals in research.