Animal Experimentation a Harvest of Shame
by Moneim A. Fadali, M.D. Hidden Springs Press,
Los Angeles (234 pages, indexed) Available from Civitas ($15)

Dr. Fadali's book has many attributes.  From a practical point of view, it

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Animal Experimentation a Harvest of Shame
by Moneim A. Fadali, M.D. Hidden Springs Press,
Los Angeles (234 pages, indexed) Available from Civitas ($15)

Dr. Fadali's book has many attributes.  From a practical point of view, it
contains much factual information (e.g. six pages tabulating effects of 69 drugs in animals and humans) activists can use to demonstrate the ineffectiveness of using other species  to study human disease.

At the same time it has passages of pure thought so beautifully written that they read like poetry and others that resound like Shakespeare when read aloud.  perhaps this should not be surprising in view of the fact that Dr. Fadali has published books of poetry and philosophy in addition to many professional papers in his specialty, thoracic and cardiovascular surgery.  B.R.

COMMENTS FROM OTHERS
TCA  subscriber  Dorothy Kendall writes: "What I found most remarkable about this book is the sense of liberation and deep joy that comes from bringing every aspect of one's life into compliance wih a moral position.
        "It is a book written from the heart rather than an attempt to demolish opponents in a debate.
        "Surely the care issue for each of us is: What compass directs us in the choices that we make?  It is our choices that define us: choices in food, health care, relationships.  What we do is love made visible.
         "Dr. Fadali illuminates the field of medical research from his unique position of professional expertise and a profound caring for every precious life on our planet."

Brandon Reines, DVM: "In rhythmic, almost Shakespearean prose, surgeon Moneim Fadali walks us through 2,000 years of medical history to show that sacrificing animals at the altar of medical science has done nothing to advance, and much to retard, the growth of modern medical procedures and knowledge.  He interweaves his own experience of medicine - including vivisection-facilitated surgical disasters - in a way that is at once personal and highly credible.  This book deserves the widest possible readership.

Michael Giannelli, Ph.D.: "Dr. Fadali  is much more than a highly trained and very successful physician.  He is equally a scholar, poet/philosopher and an activist.  Animal Experiments: a Harvest of Shame will open your eyes to vital information you may have missed, or  perhaps have avoided for long enough.  Even more importantly, this book will provide you with a healthy and inspiring alternative vision of what that relationship - and the planet we share with animals - could be like in a truly humane and civilized world."

Richard G McLellan, M.D.:  "The task Dr. Fadali has taken upon himself is one of complete self sacrifice and is filled with such moral purity as to be one for which the ages might have left the core of God himself.  Animal Experimentation: a Harvest of Shame is a monument to which the height of human thought can aspire.  I  will seek it out as a reference when I am in need of courage or strength or vision."

Neal Barnard, M.D.:  "In this volume, Moneim A. Fadali, M.D. has taken a complex and difficult issue and rendered it comprehensible.  He examines animal experimentation, not only from an ethical standpoint, but also from an eminently practical view of the problems it has caused for both doctors and patients.  More than that, Dr. Fadali has shown us what to do about it, including how research can be conducted in much better ways without animals."

Andre Menache, B.V.Sc., MRCVS (Israel):  Moneim Fadali's book is a rare work in the sense that it represents a serious challenge to orthodox medicine by one of its most distinguished and highly qualified disciples.  (He) painstakingly demonstrates that animal experimentation not only hurts animals, but it hurts people as well, because 'conclusions drawn from animal research, when applied to human disease, are likely to delay progress, mislead and do harm to the patient.'  Hopefully this book will pave the way for other, equally outspoken, medical specialists to contribute works in their field of expertise."

Eddie Moore, M.D.(Scotland):  "Dr. Fadali's book  is a significant and important contribution to the growing weight of published evidence which reveals the sham of vivisection.  It is long past time that we closed the book on vivisection and turned our minds and our research talents to the tasks of halting the apparently relentless increase in illness and of promoting good health.  If we don't, the outlook for our children and grandchildren is not good.  I found the book most readable, stimulating and refreshing.  It has the added weight of its author being an experienced surgeon. "

Michael Klaper, M.D.: "It takes a surgeon/scientist of Dr. Fadalis stature, clarity and courage to de-bunk the dogma of 'the indispensability of animal research'.  In this remarkable book he illuminates the dark dungeons of animal experimentation with the bright lights of reason and compassion."

Peter Mansfield, M.D. (England): "This book is an important contribution to the growing English language stock of medical science criticism.  Dr. Fadali has drawn on the deep insights and long experience from his training and practice as a specialist and consultant in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery to produce a text that is passionate, informative and original as well as highly readable....a fresh new approach and a wealth of new historical information."

Pietro Croce, M.D. (Italy):  "The reality of damage to humans (arising from animal experiments) is stressed and documented in the first four chapters, but it pervades the whole book.  Fadali is a man of immense culture, and that not only medical.  However, don't be put off! He also has an immense capacity to make himself understood, to adapt himself to the knowledge level of the average reader.  This is the endowment of a true and mature culture and a further act and proof of love.  Fadali ends with this exhortation: 'Stop vivisection.  NOW.  Persevere upright! - and with an assertion which resonates with promise: 'The task is not impossible.'"

A History of U.S. Science and Medicine
in the Cold War by Irwin D. Bross, Ph.D.
           Dr. Bross has long been an outspoken opponent of vivisection on the grounds that it is bad science and produces results likely to harm humans.
           This CD-ROM is a compilation of six books documenting dangers to public health perpetrated by "big science.  Each is supplemented with an up-dated 1997 commentary explaining among other things how the ills perpetrated by Pentagon policies will continue into the next century.  ($50)  Civitas lacks the funds to stock this important document.  It can be obtained from:
                                                  Biomedical Metatechnology Press
                                                  109 Maynard Drive
                                                   Amherst NY 14226

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