Category:Vivisection

Vivisection consists of the careful cutting apart of the flesh of a still living thing, whether that of an animal or a plant, in the quest for knowledge of the material processes of life. Vivisection is a fundamental procedure in biology and medicine and is taught universally to biology students and to all medical students of advanced lands. Exploration, experimentation, and research in the fields of biology and medicine depend upon, and make copious use of, vivisection. All types of surgery are vivisections. Vivisection must not be confused with dissection, wherein the flesh that is cut open is that of a freshly dead thing. Vivisection is often said to be cruelty and is sometimes equated with, and indeed used as, torture. It has a somewhat unsavoury reputation among the unwashed masses of modern lands where it is nonetheless legal and is loosely regulated at best. It may be greeted with violence in more primative lands and in such places a chiurgeon who looses a patient on his or her operating table may be seized by a mob or the authorities as a murderer. Religion tends to take a dim view of vivisection, often accusing its practitioners of being butchers.