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Animal Research
Animal research is the most humane response
to human suffering from disease. Depriving sick human beings of
the benefits of animal research is inhumane and reprehensible.
The American Physiological Society advocates the use of animals
for research and teaching as the most humane response to the need
to relieve mankind from the suffering caused by disease. The use
of animals is necessary if researchers are to combat illness,
which affects both human beings and animals. The correct training
of physicians and medical scientists also requires the use of
animals for laboratory teaching. Textbooks, isolated cells, computer
models, and other representations of the intact living organism
can provide only a partial understanding of life processes for
both the medical researcher and the student. Efforts to deny the
human race the best possible curative power of modern sciences
must be repulsed.
Adopted by the American Physiological Society Council, October
1987
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