November 2, 2007

Medical Students and Animal Labs

To the Editor:

As a practicing physician and a medical-school professor, I read your article about the use of live animals in medical education with great interest ("Medical Schools Stop Using Dogs and Pigs in Teaching," The Chronicle, October 12). Those of us who both practice medicine and teach future physicians have long recognized that the antiquated practice of animal vivisection has outlived both its usefulness and its ethical justification.

Vivisection in medical schools

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