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Morality and ethics play a major role in the advancement of medical technology. Is it fair to put an animal through the pain and scrutiny of research? Is it ethically right for a drug that has only been tested on animals to now be tested on a human being that with an entirely different genetic structure? These are a few of the numerous questions being raised about the value of animal research. Answers come in many forms. The advancement of medical research and technology has been, and will be, based upon research that has been gathered from animal testing.
Developing new drugs for different medical ailments and injuries, by use of animal research, dates back to centuries ago. Before the entire drug research era, vivisection and dissection helped to learn about the anatomy and workings of the body. In 1908 the first major animal experimentation was performed. For this procedure two monkeys were injected with a form of polio that was obtained from the spinal cord of a boy......

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