Academic Article
After lots of research, I found an article called “Animal Testing is Still then Best way to Find New Treatment for Patients.” It was written in 2017, and it is volume 39 of the European Journal of Internal Medicine. In this article, the authors, Silvio Garattini and Giuliano Grignaschi, discuss the main points about why animal testing should still be used rather than finding alternative ways to animal testing. I chose this article because it is a different perspective than what I normally have with saying how animal testing is bad.
The article starts off by explaining what experimental research is and how animals are used in some cases for drug research. One of the biggest reasons brought up was that animals have very similar organ structure and functions compared to human organs. Reading this article made me realize that there are still good reasons for animal testing and research. The audience for this article is, I think, people that are studying the topic of animal testing, or any college students or older that are just interested in the topic itself and want more information.
The article within the main one I was reading was called “Translation of Research Evidence From Animals to Humans.” This article, by Daniel Hackman and Donald Redelmeier, goes into detail about individual studies that has happened about animal testing. This article captures the idea of exactly what happens when animal testing occurs. The authors use statistics to prove that it is better for drugs to be tested on animals first rather than them being just tested one people right away.
I found this article by searching through the first article’s sources that the authors used. After that, I was able to find the article through a database from the Rohrbach Library. These two articles relate to each other because they both dscuss how drugs are tested on animals first before selling them. These articles compare to my research question because it shows that there is a reason why it is ethical to test drugs on animals. These articles really opened up my point of view that I previously had.
This graph is from “Transition of Research Evidence From Animals to Humans.” It shows how some animals react to drugs tested on them.
