One Medicine: Animal Experiments and the Making of Modern Medical Science
Dig: A History Podcast
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The Origins of Animal Exploration in the 1800s
During the 1800s, we see a rapid industrialization and mechanization of farming. Animals were increasingly used as sentinels to assess environmental risk to human health. Despite the exploitation of animals that was taking place on a large scale in their daily lives, many activists focused their anxieties and ire on scientific practices that exploited animals.
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