About the Necessity and Limits of Vivisectional Experiments in Medicine

The aim of this research was to study the possibilities and limits of conducting acute medical experiments from the moral and legal aspect. Modern Russian and foreign literature sources, as well as the latest scientifi c works on the problem under study, were reviewed. It was found that acute experiments are applied in a wide range of scientifi c research studies. The existing alternative methods cannot abolish the use of laboratory animals. Laboratory animals remain a suitable bio-model for conducting preclinical tests and experiments. Currently, vivisection is a necessary research method due to the lack of adequate alternatives.