RUESCH, Hans - The Great Thirst - (Hardcover)

Scarce book still in a very good condition - This is a novel set in the Arabian peninsula with a Muslin narrator -  Interesting author as well.   >>>   Hans Ruesch (17 May 1913 27 August 2007) was a Swiss racing driver, a novelist, and an internationally prominent activist against animal experiments and . Ruesch has been described as a pioneer of the anti-vivisection movement.   ^-   Ruesch was born in  to an Italian-speaking Swiss mother and a German-speaking Swiss father. He lived the first 14 years of his life in Naples, where his father was a textile industrialist and a specialist in Pompeian Art.  Ruesch attended boarding school in . He then studied law at the  but dropped out in 1932 to join the racing circuit.   ^-   Ruesch was internationally known as an outspoken advocate against  and other forms of . An animal lover since his childhood, he became an activist against animal testing, while living in Rome.  Ruesch did not believe that medical research could benefit by using such methods. Instead, Ruesch insisted that medicine was led dangerously astray by what he saw as , and a fatally false methodology. He argued that rabbits, mice, rats and other animals are not anatomically and physiologically similar to humans and drew upon numerous statements from doctors and researchers in support of his stance (see his work, 1,000 Doctors and More Against Vivisection). Therefore, such animal testing cannot reliably predict physiological reactions in humans. In 1974, he founded the Center for Scientific Information on Vivisection (CIVIS) and devoted the rest of his life to the abolition of vivisection.   (I, Roza, have to agree with him and like George Bernard Shaw - I too refuse to even eat anything that had a face !!!)