vivisection theme

It is discussed whether dissecting a living creature for the sake of advancing medical knowledge is justified.

Examples

Extradimensional aliens abducted Riker and severed his arm in tng6x05 "Schisms".

9 total · 1 major · 8 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
novel: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) major The reader is made to ponder the morality of performing torturous experiments on animals in the name of scientific advancement.
ahp7x39 minor In his sketch, Alfred Hitchcock had to settle for making divinations based on goat X-rays because of anti-vivisectionist efforts to prevent him from doing it by eviscerating goats like the Romans of old.
ent4x18 minor Phlox was dissecting living animals in sickbay.
movie: Annihilator (1986) minor Angela wrote an editorial arguing that more experiments ought to be performed on live animals.
movie: Hollow Man (2000) minor Dr. Sarah Kennedy called Sebastian an "unethical bastard" for his planning to vivisect a gorilla.
movie: Island of Lost Souls (1932) minor Edward Parker was horrified at the thought that Dr. Moreau was engaging in sadistic vivisections of animals.
movie: The Kindred (1987) minor We saw Dr. Lloyd hard at work surgically probing a shrieking cat.
tng6x05 minor Riker had his arm severed and reattached in course of bizarre alien experiment
voy5x08 minor Moset callously vivisected a holographic alien