Saving Molly: A Research Veterinarian's Hard Choices for the Love of Animals - Rilegato

Mahoney, James

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ISBN 10: 1565121732 ISBN 13: 9781565121737

Casa editrice: Algonquin Books, 1998

Riassunto

A veterinarian with thirty years' experience in medicine and research, the author reflects on his work with chimpanzees and other animals used in research on human diseases such as AIDS and his experiences rehabilitating a sickly puppy named Molly.

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The puppy was scrawny and dying. She presented herself to Jim Mahoney while he was enjoying the clear water, sun, and slow time of a long-awaited vacation in Jamaica.

Molly, as he would later call her, was not the first dying animal the research veternarian had seen, nor the biggest nor the smartest nor the most famous. Still, the rescue of a mottled bush dog of modest origin left Mahoney redeemed.

In the tradition of fellow University of Glasgow graduate James Herriot's All Things Great and Small, Mahoney's story spans fifty years of living with mice, horses, dogs, cats, Rhesus monkeys, chimpanzees, and the two-legged primates who live and work with them.

Mahoney is one of the few researchers to earn the respect of both scientists and animal rights activists by simultaneously agitating for humane treatment of animals shile affirming humanity's need for animal research. It's a delicate balance.

This is the tale of a man who surveys his life's work and discovers more questions than answers. How can he spend his days with chimpanzees locked behind bars and still say that he loves them? What does he owe them for their participation in his research? Why does he care? Why does saving a puppy mean so much to him?

Written by the man Jane Goodall called "one of the most gentle and compassionate people I know," Saving Molly is both an important addition to the debate on animal research and a witty, heartfelt meditation on one man's life with animals.

But it is Molly whose struggle clarifies Mahoney's beliefs, sending him barreling over rough Jamaican mountains in a borrowed car, searching for the needles, drugs, and equipment he'll need to save her. More than a story about a dog, this is the story of a rescued man.

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"There are a number of compassionate people who never come to terms with the laboratory conditions, but stay because they feel that they can then try to make things better for the chimps. One such is Dr. James Mahoney...Jim is one of the most gentle and compassionate people I know." --Jane Goodall

"The very term, vivisection, arouses strong emotional reactions on both sides. On one side stand most medical scientists, rigid and unyielding; on the other, a host of philosophers and ethicists...In the middle stand Molly's Jim as well as Dr. Mahoney, the chimpanzees' doctor, both packaged inside one gentle, caring man trying to calm the emotions, soften the rhetoric, and most important, make sense of it all. There is conflict within him that one doubts can be resolved." --Roger A. Caras, from the Introduction

"What's important to me is that he is concerned about the pain and the suffering of the animals." That's what makes Jim Mahoney different." --Alex Pacheco, founder of People of the Ethical Treatment of Animals

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• Editore: Algonquin Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1565121732
• ISBN 13: 9781565121737
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 234