In order to further their own interests, the proponents of vivisection have, over the years, manipulated the facts with the set purpose of convincing the public that vivisection is essential to human health. The mass media has been a more than willing accomplice to this deception. To be most effective in countering this propaganda it is essential that the information contained in this web site, and in the works of Hans Ruesch, are disseminated widely and made available to the population at large. This most important task has been been almost totally ignored by those in the movement to date, and explains the true reason for the failure of the anti-vivisection movement despite over one century of campaigning.

We can supply a small, but growing range of books, booklets, films and leaflets; they are all available at cost price, whilst a sample leaflet and booklet can also be downloaded free of charge in PDF format. A guide to further recommended books is listed further on, and these are in the main widely available to purchase on the internet. Please note that all prices are inclusive of postage within the UK. Please contact us for prices of books outside the UK.

Book: Slaughter of the Innocent, by Hans Ruesch. The 1978 classic which has been described as the ‘Bible of the Anti-Vivisection Movement’. Essential reading!  2003 reprint by Slingshot Publications.  See full description here. Price: £12.00.

Book: Naked Empress, or the Great Medical Fraud, by Hans Ruesch. First published in 1982. Latest issue 1992. Following up his sensational Slaughter of the Innocent, Hans Ruesch shows how with the help of the press agentry, and the venality of the mass media, the public has been brainwashed into equating medical care with health, whereas in fact the opposite is true -  modem medicine has become the principle cause of disease today. Naked Empress describes how the oil industry adopted vivisection in order to give the public confidence in its new chemical products in the late nineteenth century, and shows how the drug industry grew into the most profitable of industries, which set up trusts to influence medical schools. It proves that we are all victims of the fraud of vivisection.  223 pages. Price: £10.00

Book: 1000 Doctors (and many more) Against Vivisection, by Hans Ruesch. 1989. A chronology of professional verdicts from 1824-1989 showing the worthlessness of vivisection on medical grounds. Extract from the preface by Hans Ruesch: “Banking on magic rather than logic, Modern Medicine, organized by industry-beholden health authorities along strictly commercial lines, in collusion with the tax-squeezing governments, has managed to take over the role that for­merly belonged to the Church. The licensed doctors are this new religion's ordained priests, in whose hands the diffident patients are requested to place their full purse and blind trust, asking no questions. This has been obtained by blending facts with fiction so skilfully that not only the lay public but also many of the participants themselves are often unable to discern between the two.” Soft cover. 281 pages. Price: Unavailable in print; but download the book here, free of charge.

DVD: Bad Medicine: the human cost of animal experiments. 45 minutes. DVD only. Essential viewing and an excellent accompaniment to the books above.  See full description here. Price: £5.00. Can  also be downloaded in low resolution for free.

Free to download (PDF format).

Booklet: Animals in Medical Research: A Necessary Evil? 20 page booklet for school students.

Booklet: Vivisection is Scientific Fraud, by Hans Ruesch. First published in 1979 by CIVIS. Latest issue 1995. Often referred to as “The Black Booklet”, this 42 page publication contains many photographs from vivisection laboratories around the world, as well as citing a number of medical opinions against vivisection. An invaluable booklet for showing to those who believe that “vivisection” and “humane” are not contradictions in terms. free online or to buy. Price: £3.00

Leaflet: Vivisection is a Crime Against Humanity. Leaflets also available to purchase.

The following books are also recommended reading, and should be readily available from online booksellers, or where specified.

Dirty Medicine, by Martin J Walker. Out of print but available online.

Vivisection Unveiled, by Dr Tony Page. 1997. Easily readable and fully researched and referenced, this superb 138 page book demolishes the vivisection fraud, often using the vivisectors own words. Highly recommended.

Confessions of a Medical Heretic, by Robert S Mendelsohn, M.D.

The Poisoned Needle, by Eleanor McBean

Vaccination Bible, by What Doctors Don’t Tell You. Available from their web site.

Animal Research Takes Lives: Humans and Animals Both Suffer, by Bette Overell of the NZAVS. Available free online.

Animal Experimentation, A Harvest of Shame, by Monheim A Fadali MD

Lethal Laws, by Alix Fano

Vaccines, Are They Really Safe and Effective?, by Neil Z Miller

Immunization: Theory Vs Reality, by Neil Z Miller

What Will We Do if We Don’t Experiment on Animals?, by Jean Swingle Greek DVM, and C Ray Greek MD

Specious Science, by Jean Swingle Greek DVM, and C Ray Greek MD

Sacred Cows and Golden Geese, by Jean Swingle Greek DVM, and C Ray Greek MD

The Medical Mafia, by Guylaine Lanctot MD

The Pharmaceutical Drug Racket, by the CAFMR, Part 1,free online

The Pharmaceutical Drug Racket, by the CAFMR, Part 2,free online

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The two infamous CIVIS greetings cards.

German anti-vivisection postcard.

Book: Vivisection or Science, by prof Pietro Croce. As the stream of hi-tech drugs continues to multiply and a huge number of animals are used in medical experiments, debate continues about reliable methods for biomedical research and their adequacy in protecting human health from new products and procedures. In this book, a leading Italian medical researcher concludes, after years of himself practising animal experimentation and vivisection, that the traditional reliance on these techniques is scientifically misplaced.

He documents, with a wealth of fascinating detail, precisely how the scientific anti-vivisection movement has constructed a rational case, as opposed to a sentimental or ethical argument., and he highlights the increasing dangers to human health resulting from the animal experimenters' assumption that the biological systems of humans and other species are sufficiently similar for valid biomedical comparison. Published originally in Italian, translated into German and Japanese, and now available in a completely revised and updated edition in English. Price: £10.00