Pain with capital P
I study pain here in Nagasaki. The physical pain is pretty much the worse thing you can experience and for that reason, we need to find god methods to reduce the pain.
When you study pain, you need to do some pain test on animals in order to se if the substance they’ve been given has a pain relief or not.
Today, I preformed a test called the EPW. Briefly, you have electrodes attached to a Neurometer that conducts small electric waves. The electrodes are being placed at the animal and the electric strength is being increased until the mouse start moving (that means that the mouse can feel something).
I have to say that I felt like an evil dictator. On the other hand, they didn’t really feel that much pain since the intensity of the electric shock wasn’t high. And imagine how many people there are around the world who feels more pain. So I guess I shouldn’t feel like Saddam Hussein, he didn’t torture for knowledge, he just did it for fun.
When you study pain, you need to do some pain test on animals in order to se if the substance they’ve been given has a pain relief or not.
Today, I preformed a test called the EPW. Briefly, you have electrodes attached to a Neurometer that conducts small electric waves. The electrodes are being placed at the animal and the electric strength is being increased until the mouse start moving (that means that the mouse can feel something).
I have to say that I felt like an evil dictator. On the other hand, they didn’t really feel that much pain since the intensity of the electric shock wasn’t high. And imagine how many people there are around the world who feels more pain. So I guess I shouldn’t feel like Saddam Hussein, he didn’t torture for knowledge, he just did it for fun.
posted by Diana Chavlah at 2:39 p.m.
3 Comments:
That is evil to play with animals. What if it would have been you instead?
What a stupid comment. She's not "playing" with animals, she is conducting research. There is a huge amount of difference between gratuitously torturing animals for pleasure, and instrumentalising animals for worthwhile scientific research.
I don't think you do your own work any justice, Diana, by comparing yourself to Saddam Hussein when conducting research!
I agree with lee,
The thing is when you know that you're about to add pain to a living creature, no matter how much you’ll think about it, you’ll still know that you are the one who will add pain. The worse part is actually when the mice start moving a try and try to break free. Remember though, this is pain studies, among the worse studies on animals that can be made. And they get strong analgesia that for some reason don't seem to work to 100%.
I am glad that this occurs on animals and not on humans.
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