Adrian R. Morrison
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Born | 5 November 1935 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Died | 4 August 2021 |
Adrian R. Morrison (1935 – 4 August 2021) was an American
Biography
Morrison was born in
From 2001 to 2003, he was the president at the World Federation of Sleep Research Societies. In 1991 he held the role of visiting professorship at London's Royal Society of Medicine. Morrison was a collaborator at the: Unit for Experimental Psychiatry, the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital, and in the Graduate Group in Anatomy, and the Graduate Group in Comparative Medical Sciences.
Morrison was a consultant and member of the Institute of Neurological Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, a member of the executive board at the Human Clinical Sleep Research Center, was on the executive committee and advisory board, Center for Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology, and the executive committee of the Penn Sleep Academic Award (NIH Program). He also chaired the advisory board of the Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology.
In addition to these roles Morrison was: the
He was married to Olive R. Morrison.[7][8] The had five children.
Animal experimentation
Morrison was a supporter of animal experimentation for biomedical research.[1] He publicly defended a fellow neuroscientist who was investigated for cruelty to animals in his research.[1] He supported the animal research of Dr. John Orem. This provoked criticism from animal rights activists and a raid on his laboratory by the Animal Liberation Front.[1]
In 1991, he received the AAAS award “for his dedicated promotion of the responsible use of animals in research and his courageous stand in the face of great personal risk against attempts to curtail animal research essential to public health.”[9] Morrison contributed a chapter to the book Why Animal Experimentation Matters, published in 2001. He argued that animal rights activists distort the research of scholars and use misleading evidence to support an animal rights agenda.[10]
In 2009, he authored An Odyssey with Animals: A Veterinarian’s Reflections on the Animal Rights & Welfare Debate, which defended biomedical research on laboratory animals and criticized the arguments of animal rights activists.[3] Morrison described the animal rights movement as "the promotion of beliefs among the untutored by dishonest presentations of the ways animals are used by humans".[11]
Selected publications
Books
Morrison co-edited: Changing Concepts of the Nervous System (
Papers
- Animal Research Is Vital to Medicine (1997)
- Perverting medical history in the service of "animal rights" (2002)
References
- ^ a b c d e "In Memoriam: Dr. Adrian R. Morrison". sleepresearchsociety.org. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
- ^ "Adrian R. Morrison". vet.upenn.edu. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
- ^ a b c d Anestidou, Lida (2010). "Animal Research: A Journey" (PDF). Nature. 16 (4): 367.
- ^ a b "Adrian Morrison, Penn Vet". almanac.upenn.edu. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
- ^ "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). APS. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
- ^ "Laboratory for the Study of the Brain in Sleep". UPenn Veterinary Medicine. Archived from the original on 10 May 2015. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
- ^ "All results for Adrian R Morrison". Ancestry. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
- ^ "Presented to the Penn Libraries by Dr. Adrian R. Morrison in honor of his wife Olive R. Morrison". University of Pennsylvania Library Franklin catalog.
- ^ "Adrian R. Morrison". AAAS. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
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