Godina izdanja: Ostalo
ISBN: Ostalo
Oblast: Biologija
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Moneim A. Fadali - Animal Experimentation
A Harvest of Shame

Hidden Springs Press, 1996.
Meki povez, 235 strana.
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`Dr. Fadali has drawn on deep insights and long experience from his training and practice as a specialist and consultant in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery to produce a text that is passionate, informative and original as well as highly readable. Thoughtful people who have not before considered this issue will find their intellectual curiosity completely satisfied.` -- Peter Mansfield, M.D., Past President, Doctors in Britain Against Animal Experiments

`Dr. Fadali has taken a complex and difficult issue, and rendered it comprehensible. He examines animal experimentation, not only from an ethical standpoint, but also from an eminently practical view of the problems it has caused for both doctors and patients. More than that, Dr. Fadali has shown us what to do about it, including how research can be conducted in much better ways without animals.` -- Neal D. Barnard, M.D., President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Washington D.C.

`It takes a surgeon/scientist of Dr. Fadali`s stature, clarity and courage to de-bunk the dogma of the `indispensability of animal research.` In this remarkable book, he illuminates the dark dungeons of animal experimentation with the bright light of reason and compassion.` -- Michael Klaper, M.D., Author - - Vegan Nutrition: Pure and Simple

`The reality of damage to humans is stressed and documented in the first four chapters, but it pervades the whole book. Fadali is a man if immense culture...He also has an immense capacity to make himself understood, to adapt himself to the knowledge level of the average reader.` -- Pietro Croce, M.D., Professor Emeritus, Pathology, University of Milano, Italy

`The task Dr. Fadali has taken upon himself is one of complete self-sacrifice...Animal Experimentation: A Harvest of Shame is a monument to the height to which human thought can aspire. I will seek it out as a reference when I am in need of courage or strength or vision.` -- Richard G. McLellan, M.D., Diplomate, American board of Emergency Medicine, Long Beach, California
From the Author
The practice of medicine is an old and honorable profession, one to which I am proud to belong. Unfortunately, however, in some respects I would contend that medicine western medicine has gone astray. For example, the first principle of the Hippocratic oath we physicians take is, `Primum non nocera` (First, do no harm). In this book, Animal Experimentation: A Harvest of Shame, I will make the case that the current scientific emphasis on the vivisection of animals-inducing injury and disease in previously healthy animals-has not only done tremendous harm to the animals, it has worked to the detriment of patients as well.

The thesis of this book will no doubt come as a shock to many. I would only ask that the reader maintain an open mind, looking at the evidence he/she will find here. I would also ask the reader to keep an open heart, that is, to never lose sight of the fact that the humane treatment of all living beings is an ethical responsibility which must not be ignored in pursuit of so-called `progress.` Earning a medical degree and donning the white coat of the doctor does not thereby provide physicians with the privilege to disregard moral behavior. Indeed, I would contend that the opposite is true, that medical doctors have a particularly compelling obligation to act with kindness and respect toward all.

Over the years, I have discovered that among physicians I am far from alone in these beliefs, as expressed and supported in this book. Nevertheless, medical doctors are usually reluctant to publicly express their feelings because to do so invites reprisals and recriminations from professional medical organizations and even from some of our peers. I cannot concern myself with this risk. I have a higher duty. To be true to itself and to those whom it serves, I maintain that medicine must never cause diseases in the name of curing them, nor inflict injuries in the name of healing them. To do so constitutes bad science, bad medicine and inhumane conduct.

I hope this book will not only inform you, I hope it will help you to make wiser and healthier choices in your life.

Moneim Fadali, M.D.
About the Author
Moneim A. Fadali, M.D. is a distinguished physician and surgeon. The list of his professional credentials is long and impressive: Diplomate of the American Board of Thoracic surgery; Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery; Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Canada) in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery; Fellow of the American College of Surgeons; Fellow of the American College of Cardiology; Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians; Member, California Medical Association; Member, Los Angeles County Medical Association; Commissioner, Medical State Board of California.

Dr. Fadali he has published extensively in his medical specialty. But in addition to his medical credentials, he is a published poet/philosopher. His book, Coping and Beyond, published by DeVorss & Company, is due for a third printing -- a book of essays and observations of life and living. Another of his books, Love, Passion and Solitude is a selection of his poems. His poetry transcends convention and restriction of every sort, it encompasses life in all its manifestations. His verse is forceful and daring, yet rich and refined. A heroic passion for world peace, justice, freedom and preservation of the cosmic web is the vital force of his poetry.

Dr. Fadali is a frequent guest on radio and television where his poetry is read and his insightful, progressive views on the environment and the human condition are sought. His television series, `Total Transformation: The Unconditioned Mind` is shown on television nationwide.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
In conclusion, the very word vivisection is its own condemnation. It is a grave error to view it as necessary or imperative. Given this frame of mind, we will rationalize and justify the detestable, cruel practice. Vivisection is not imperative, is absolutely unnecessary; it is a choice, a bad one, unscientific, utterly malicious. Vivisection is a wretched fraud, counterproductive and damaging to human health and well being. Eating meat is not necessary, it is a choice, unhealthy, harming our health and shortening our life span; whether we know it or not, it debases our psyche. War is not necessary, is not imperative, is not inevitable; it is a fatal disease; the only cure is prevention. And, the primary obstacle to preventing war is our belief that that war is not preventable. Wars never stop war, a war always leads to another war. Wars are mass murders of humans, animals, plants, environment and planet, spheres and realms beyond as well. You do not justify what is just. Vivisection, meat-eating and war being unjust, must be justified; being unnecessary, they have been rationalized. Whatever seemingly good one attains through evil, cruel means cannot be good; eventually it will harm and degrade. Always does. Look back, discern the tearful anguished history of humankind. The verdict is, `You cannot do evil that good may result.` Animal experimentation is a harvest of shame. And, the primary threat to our life is ourselves.

Finally, animal experimentation and animal exploitation in all forms have no scientific proof, no religious basis, no philosophical merit, no ethical vindication and no health reason; therefore they must be stopped. Now. Persevere upright. The task is not impossible.

The author; pages 224-225.

The central thesis of Dr. Moneim Fadali`s new book is well contained it its title: Animal Experimentation: A Harvest of Shame. He forcefully contends that the living legacy of vivisection is an ignominious trail of misdirected science, misguided medicine, ethics gone astray and, of course, enormous suffering to both humans and nonhumans alike. These are profoundly serious charges which might not be taken seriously were it not that Moneim Fadali carries extremely impressive credentials as a practicing cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon. For that reason alone, this book cannot be ignored by those truly seeking knowledge of this bitterly controversial subject and who are unafraid to reexamine their cherished basic assumptions.

But Moneim Fadali is much more than a highly trained and very successful physician. He is equally a scholar, a poet/philosopher and an activist. His scholarship is manifest in the comprehensive research and detailed examination which this book provides into the history of medicine. Again and again, he presents credible evidence that the greatest advances in medical science owe little if anything to the animal laboratory. Indeed, he provides innumerable illustrations where vivisection has delayed medical progress for people because results from the animal lab were misleading, inconclusive, or duplicative of information already known. As poet/philosopher, he frequently punctuates his treatise with striking images and insightful metaphors, personally challenges the reader to stir the sleeping moral conscience inside, and often envelops his prose in a aura of deep emotion. As activist, he does not shy away from confrontation; indeed on virtually every page he throws down the gauntlet of challenge to those who would defend the status quo. Some might fault him for intermixing measured chains of logic with periodic bursts of indignation and even condemnation. But agree with him or not, no one will ever be in doubt about his perspective nor the reasons for it.

For obvious reasons, the primary focus of the book is the use-and misuse-of animals sacrificed in the name of science. In addition to critiquing the empirical record of the field in terms of practical benefits to medicine and human health, the author endeavors to disclose other major flaws in the professional practice of vivisection which collectively result in so much suffering to animals: legal and regulatory omissions; professional privilege; psychological and political motivations; etc. He does not wince from citing many documented examples of grossly inhumane testing and experimentation. For those presently convinced that only `humane` research is allowed, these sections will be a disturbing revelation. Equally valuable is his summary exposition of the practical alternatives to animal vivisection, from clinical research to the latest developments in computer modeling.

One of the most interesting and ultimately valuable aspects of this book is that it also seeks to put the animal experimentation debate into a more meaningful and much broader context. In this sense, vivisection per se is seen as a microcosm of the worst in human nature: arrogance, aggressiveness and selfishness. The author`s premise is that vivisection is a major example, but only one example, of animal exploitation which is pervasive, cross-cultural, and traditionally entrenched . Other examples are all too readily found in the worlds of sport, of fashion, of entertainment, and most dramatically of all, in the world of food. The latter subject merits special notice, not only because the number of animals sacrificed for human consumption dwarfs that in any other area, but also because as a physician deeply concerned with the welfare of his fellow humans, Moneim Fadali takes pains to show how the eating of animal flesh contributes mightily-not only to the colossal toll of animal suffering-but also leads to untold damage to the consumers of flesh themselves, resulting in preventable sickness and death on a grand scale. The depth of his sincerity and commitment in this regard in never more clear than in these passages, sprinkled throughout the book. He writes as a man of medicine, but also as a long-standing vegan, that is, one who neither eats nor wears nor consumes any animal products whatsoever.

His willingness, indeed compulsion, to stand up for what he believes in and to expose himself to attack from his peers and political adversaries are the marks of a true visionary. He is a teacher in the grandest meaning of the term. I commend him for writing this book, and I highly recommend it to all, but especially to those just becoming dimly aware that humanity`s relationship with nonhumans betrays an ethical blind spot of monumental proportions. Animal Experimentation: A Harvest of Shame will open your eyes to vital information you may have missed, or perhaps have avoided for long enough. Even more importantly, this book will provide you with a healthy and inspiring alternative vision of what that relationship-and the planet we share with other animals-could be like in a truly humane and civilized world. Michael A. Giannelli, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist From one of the three Forewords


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