Animals in Medical Research
- Date:
- 1948-1993
- Reference:
- PP/WDP/E
- Part of:
- Paton, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917-1993), Pharmacologist
- Archives and manuscripts
Collection contents
About this work
Description
Correspondence and papers from Paton's period as Chairman of the Research Defence Society (1972-77), his contributions to Parliamentary Committees, and papers relating to Man and Mouse: Animals in Medical Research (1984).
The section contains a comprehensive range of press documentation from a period in which the anti-vivisection lobby mustered considerable public support, and 'direct action' tactics were commonly adopted against pharmaceutical and scientific communities.
Publication/Creation
1948-1993
Physical description
128 files