Word: monkeys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Which, in contrast to monkey kidneys or other animal tissue used as culture mediums, are readily available, relatively sterile and contain the nutrients needed for virus growth...
WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. In this collection of short stories and essays, the author, posing as a mod scientist at the controls of a literary time machine, explores the inner and outer spaces of the man-against-machine perplex...
...could not have been foreseen because the combination effect had not been observed previously, or even suspected. Wuest insisted, however, that "the tools are now available" to prevent the repetition of such a disaster, if drug researchers take care to test their compounds in animals such as the rhesus monkey...
...that class, Daniel Stern, a critic-novelist (After the War, Miss America) long preoccupied with the dusty corners of the modern soul, proves a deft performer. His literary colleague Kurt Vonnegut recently toyed with industrialized suicide (Welcome to the Monkey House), but only as an example of the dehumanized modern world efficiently eliminating Malthusian excess. Stern's Suicide Academy, by contrast, has a more promising metaphoric reach...
...statistics. They insisted that so long as no one knows how thalidomide actually works inside the human system, it is impossible to forge a link between the drug and a child's malformation. Lenz answered that thalidomide has been shown to cause phocomelia in rhesus and other monkey species in which the condition does not occur naturally. For doctors to seek comparable proof in man would be at least unethical and in most countries illegal. Said Lenz: "You are demanding a kind of scientific perfectionism that is not applicable to medicine. Despite the statistical methods we are forced...