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Quotation from An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine by Claude Bernard
“Have we the right to make experiments on animals and vivisect them? As for me, I think we have this right, wholly and absolutely.”
An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, Part Two, Chapter II, trans. Henry Copley Greene (1927)
Bernard's answer to the moral question of animal experiment, which he goes on to defend by comparison with the other uses human beings make of animals.
Citation: "Have we the right to make experiments on animals and vivisect them? As for me, I think we have this right, wholly and absolutely." — Claude Bernard, An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, Part Two, Chapter II, trans. Henry Copley Greene (1927). (id bernard-introduction-to-experimental-medicine-q6)
Portrait: Claude Bernard 5, Unknown, Public domain.
