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volumes : illustrations, portraits plates. ; 27 cm

Progress today : the humanitarian and anti-vivisection review.

This film looks at many aspects of animal abuse including the abandoning and mistreatment of domestic animals, laboratory testing, factory farming and slaughterhouse conditions. The aim is to raise awareness of animal rights. Much of the footage was shot guerilla-style, with small crews sneaking inside slaughterhouses and compounds. The viewing is frequently upsetting and in this respect the programme is extremely effective.

The animals film.

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Vivisection : what good has it done? / a speech delivered by G.M. Humphry at the forty-ninth annual meeting of the British Medical Association, August, 1881.

Human vivisection : A statement and an inquiry.

The case for animal experimentation : an evolutionary and ethical perspective / Michael Allen Fox.

Vivisection and the diseases of animals.

The shambles of science : extracts from the diary of two students of physiology / by Lizzy Lind af Hageby and Leisa K. Schartau.

Biological experimentation : its function and limits, including answers to nine questions submitted from the Leigh-Browne Trust / by Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson.

Paton's main research interests were in underwater physiology, histamine, synaptic transmission, drug dependence, anaesthetic mechanisms, allergy electron microscopy and the history of science, particularly medical science. This collection of Paton's personal papers broadly reflects not only these research interests in a considerable range of correspondence, research papers and laboratory notebooks, but also much of the committee work that occupied his energies. Papers from Paton's time as both a Rhodes Trustee and a Wellcome Trustee provide further evidence of the extent of his commitments in committee.

Papers relating to Paton's Chairmanship of the Research Defence Committee (1972-77) are particularly extensive and reveal the social and political pressures of the period, the passionate challenges of the anti-vivisection lobby, as well as Paton's personal commitment to a socially responsible use of animals in scientific experimentation. Papers relating to Man and Mouse: Animals in Medical Research (1984), in which Paton set out his fundamental position on animal experimentation, provide further material on this topic.

Another field of interest in which Paton expended considerable energy was that of drug dependence, particularly the pharmacological action of cannabis. Through work in laboratory and committees, and through the media and many speaking engagements, he campaigned strenuously to warn of what he judged to be the deleterious effects of cannabis, and forged campaign alliances with American colleagues who shared his concerns.

Throughout his career, Paton maintained strong links with the Royal Navy, acting as scientific adviser and consultant on deep diving and underwater physiology. This strand of his work was of enduring interest: Paton's work on the physiological properties of gases at high pressure led directly to the development of the deep-diving breathing mixture known as 'Tri-Mix', in which nitrogen is added to helium and oxygen. Paton took great pleasure in the Royal Navy achieving, in 1980, the world's deepest dive (see D/2/14).

The collection comprises a set of papers that reflect, in their variety and coherence, a career that refused to be confined to a set of narrow pharmacological interests, and refused to confine science to the laboratory.

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Progress today : the humanitarian and anti-vivisection review.

The animals film.

Vivisection : what good has it done? / a speech delivered by G.M. Humphry at the forty-ninth annual meeting of the British Medical Association, August, 1881.

Human vivisection : A statement and an inquiry.

The case for animal experimentation : an evolutionary and ethical perspective / Michael Allen Fox.

Vivisection and the diseases of animals.

The shambles of science : extracts from the diary of two students of physiology / by Lizzy Lind af Hageby and Leisa K. Schartau.

Biological experimentation : its function and limits, including answers to nine questions submitted from the Leigh-Browne Trust / by Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson.

Paton, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917-1993), Pharmacologist

The utility and morality of vivisection / by G. Gore.

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Progress today : the humanitarian and anti-vivisection review.

The animals film.

Vivisection : what good has it done? / a speech delivered by G.M. Humphry at the forty-ninth annual meeting of the British Medical Association, August, 1881.

Human vivisection : A statement and an inquiry.

The case for animal experimentation : an evolutionary and ethical perspective / Michael Allen Fox.

Vivisection and the diseases of animals.

The shambles of science : extracts from the diary of two students of physiology / by Lizzy Lind af Hageby and Leisa K. Schartau.

Biological experimentation : its function and limits, including answers to nine questions submitted from the Leigh-Browne Trust / by Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson.

Paton, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917-1993), Pharmacologist

The utility and morality of vivisection / by G. Gore.

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