vivisection
Sign in to savethumb|An anesthetized pig used for training a surgeon Vivisection () is surgery conducted for experimental purposes on a living organism, typically animals with a central nervous system, to view living internal structure. The word is, more broadly, used as a pejorative catch-all term for experimentation on live animals by organizations opposed to animal experimentation, but the term is rarely used by practicing scientists. Human vivisection, such as live organ harvesting, has been perpetrated as a form of torture.
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11 sectionsContents
- Animal vivisection
- Regulations and laws
- Anti-vivisection movement
- 19th century
- François Magendie (1783–1855)
- David Ferrier and the Cruelty to Animals Act 1876
- 20th century
- Human vivisection
- See also
- References
- Further reading
thumb|An anesthetized pig used for training a surgeon Vivisection () is surgery conducted for experimental purposes on a living organism, typically animals with a central nervous system, to view living internal structure. The word is, more broadly, used as a pejorative catch-all term for experimentation on live animals by organizations opposed to animal experimentation, but the term is rarely used by practicing scientists. Human vivisection, such as live organ harvesting, has been perpetrated as a form of torture.
==Animal vivisection== === Regulations and laws ===