On Weird Animal Experiments...
Apparently, there has been a long history of animal experimentation (which makes sense, given that human bodies are that much harder to obtain). One of the most morbid ones that I found dealt with dog heads, and is explained in gruesome detail by Mary Roach in Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. In May 1908, an intrepid scientist named Charles Guthrie took his weird transplantation obsession to another level, making the first artificial two headed dog! Like Moreau's animal men, this dog looked fantastically strange: "Were it not for the caption, the photo would seem to be of some rare form of marsupial dog, with a large baby's head protruding from a pouch in its mother's fur. The transplanted head was sewn on at the base of the neck, upside down, so that the two dogs are chin to chin, giving an impression of intimacy..." (Roach 207). What makes this experiment doubly cruel is the fact that in order to obtain the 'extra' head, Guthrie designed his own guillotine and decapitated a live dog so that its head would be 'fresh.' Sadly, both dogs were euthanized shortly after they were fused (due to complications).
In the 1950s in the Soviet Union, another man by the name of Vladimir Demikhov pushed this canine experimentation even farther. He would take two dogs and split both of them at their diaphragms, promptly switching their entire lower and upper halves and grafting their veins and arteries together. Since he couldn't reconnect the spinal nerves, this procedure ultimately failed as well.
What I find interesting as I was reading these accounts is the fact that to me, experimenting in such a way on animals seems to be more cruel than human experimentation. Granted, not much of this has been imposed on humans (but who knows what happened during the Nazi regime...), but it almost seems worse for animals because they can't fight back or protest in pain. Many of my friends shared the same sentiments. Any thoughts on this?
In the 1950s in the Soviet Union, another man by the name of Vladimir Demikhov pushed this canine experimentation even farther. He would take two dogs and split both of them at their diaphragms, promptly switching their entire lower and upper halves and grafting their veins and arteries together. Since he couldn't reconnect the spinal nerves, this procedure ultimately failed as well.
What I find interesting as I was reading these accounts is the fact that to me, experimenting in such a way on animals seems to be more cruel than human experimentation. Granted, not much of this has been imposed on humans (but who knows what happened during the Nazi regime...), but it almost seems worse for animals because they can't fight back or protest in pain. Many of my friends shared the same sentiments. Any thoughts on this?
posted by Quinn at 8:59 PM
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I agree, these types of experiments are horrible. Especially since there is no benefit from a successul transplantaion. These types of experiments definitely cross ethical boundaries, because in other questionable experiments such as cloning at least there are possible benefits. These experiments are just cruel, and should be banned.
Apparently the experiments conductedby Demikhov were done out of interests in transplantation. He wanted to perform heartlung-transplantations on people in the end. His research learned us a lot about transplantations, so no matter how cruel, thy were quit useful as well.
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