OpinionSeptember 16, 2021
Stop Torturing Animals in the Name of Science
Four centuries after Descartes declared them to be mere machines that didn’t feel fear or pain, we’re still acting as though we don’t know better
Stories by Hope Ferdowsian
Hope Ferdowsian is an associate professor of medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and a double board-certified internal medicine and preventive medicine physician with expertise in research ethics and research policy. She is a medical expert for Physicians for Human Rights and co-founder of the Society of Asylum Medicine. Ferdowsian is also a fellow of the American College of Physicians and of the American College of Preventive Medicine. She earned an M.D. at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and a master of public health degree at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.