Tiffany Batiste
SSCI 306
TUES-THURS
Testing 1, 2, 3: Animal Cruelty or Vital Aspect to Medical Advancement?
“And God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. They shall rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the cattle, and the whole earth, and all the creeping things that creep on earth." And God created man in his image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1.24) As human beings, we bear hardship through a numerous amount of inherited and infectious illnesses ; sexual transmitted diseases , cancers, and diabetes are just to name a small few of the life threatening and life altering convalesces individuals suffer with across the world. But as human beings we have the …show more content…
The U.S Public Health Services (PHS) conducted an experiment on 399 black men on the late stages of syphilis. Informed that they were being treated for “bad blood” the doctors had no real intentions of curing them of the syphilis they had intentionally infected them with. The data of the experiment was to be collected from the autopsies of the men, and they were thus deliberately left to degenerate under the ravages of tertiary syphilis, which can include tumors, heart disease, paralysis, blindness, insanity and death. (Smith, The Penn Experiment) And it was not only the blacks that were used for experimentations; it was also performed on orphans, gypsies, and the mentally ill. It was not until the 1900’s that animal testing became a practice in the United States. Many cringe at the idea of using animals for testing, however would you donate your body or allow the government to use the bodies of the minority or the weak for scientific and medical research to benefit and save the lives of others? I presume not. Using animals for research is a more ethical and more morally …show more content…
Using animal testing has created vaccines, insulin’s and even cures to a variety of illnesses. For exemplification, in 1921 Fredrick Banting discovered that the isolates of the pancreatic secretion could be used to keep dogs with diabetes alive. He continued the experiments with chemical isolation of insulin in 1922 with John Macleod. After receiving the treatments, not only did the dogs survive; they improved. After being considered safe for human use, Leonard Thompson, a fourteen year old diabetic who only weighed sixty five pound and was about to slip into a comma and die, was the first to be treated and lived another thirteen years after his first treatment. Before insulin’s clinical use, a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus meant death. There are currently 25.8 million children and adults in the Untied States, that is 8.3 % of the population, who have diabetes. (American Diabetes Association) But thanks to the discovery of insulin through animal testing 25.8 million people in America have a chance to sustain their
SSCI 306
TUES-THURS
Testing 1, 2, 3: Animal Cruelty or Vital Aspect to Medical Advancement?
“And God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. They shall rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the cattle, and the whole earth, and all the creeping things that creep on earth." And God created man in his image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1.24) As human beings, we bear hardship through a numerous amount of inherited and infectious illnesses ; sexual transmitted diseases , cancers, and diabetes are just to name a small few of the life threatening and life altering convalesces individuals suffer with across the world. But as human beings we have the …show more content…
The U.S Public Health Services (PHS) conducted an experiment on 399 black men on the late stages of syphilis. Informed that they were being treated for “bad blood” the doctors had no real intentions of curing them of the syphilis they had intentionally infected them with. The data of the experiment was to be collected from the autopsies of the men, and they were thus deliberately left to degenerate under the ravages of tertiary syphilis, which can include tumors, heart disease, paralysis, blindness, insanity and death. (Smith, The Penn Experiment) And it was not only the blacks that were used for experimentations; it was also performed on orphans, gypsies, and the mentally ill. It was not until the 1900’s that animal testing became a practice in the United States. Many cringe at the idea of using animals for testing, however would you donate your body or allow the government to use the bodies of the minority or the weak for scientific and medical research to benefit and save the lives of others? I presume not. Using animals for research is a more ethical and more morally …show more content…
Using animal testing has created vaccines, insulin’s and even cures to a variety of illnesses. For exemplification, in 1921 Fredrick Banting discovered that the isolates of the pancreatic secretion could be used to keep dogs with diabetes alive. He continued the experiments with chemical isolation of insulin in 1922 with John Macleod. After receiving the treatments, not only did the dogs survive; they improved. After being considered safe for human use, Leonard Thompson, a fourteen year old diabetic who only weighed sixty five pound and was about to slip into a comma and die, was the first to be treated and lived another thirteen years after his first treatment. Before insulin’s clinical use, a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus meant death. There are currently 25.8 million children and adults in the Untied States, that is 8.3 % of the population, who have diabetes. (American Diabetes Association) But thanks to the discovery of insulin through animal testing 25.8 million people in America have a chance to sustain their