ISHA / WCVAA : Is laboratory animal anesthesia still prehistory?

Objectifs pédagogiques

To define the role of animal experimentation in science and medicine before the
development of anaesthesia
To examine the effect of the discovery of anaesthesia on the treatment of
experimental animals
To investigate the legal challenges that developed in the nineteenth century as
the rapid growth in scientific discovery led to more animal research just as
society was demanding a more humane treatment of animals
To define and explain the current state of animal experimentation and its
regulation.
To bring all of this information together to answer the question of whether the
situation has really improved for the research animal