Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 9 provides a wide variety of perspectives on both traditional and more recent views of Earth's resources. It serves as a bridge connecting the domains of resource exploitation, environmentalism, geology, and biology, and it explains their interrelationships in terms that students and other nonspecialists can understand. The articles in this set are extremely diverse, with articles covering soil, fisheries, forests, aluminum, the Industrial Revolution, the . Department of the Interior, the hydrologic cycle, glass, and placer mineral deposits. . | 50 Animals as a medical resource Global Resources in Industrial America. Cambridge Mass. Harvard University Press 2008. Kalof Linda and Brigitte Resl eds. A Cultural History of Animals. 6 vols. New York Berg 2007. Pynn Larry. Logging with Horse Power. Canadian Geographic 111 no. 4 August September 1991 30. Schmidt Michael J. and Richard Ross. Working Elephants They Earn Their Keep in Asia by Providing an Ecologically Benign Way to Harvest Forests. Scientific American 274 no. 1 Januar y 1996 82. Tiwari G. N. and M. K. Ghosal. Draught Animal Power. In Renewable Energy Resources Basic Principles and Applications. Harrow England Alpha Science International 2005. Watts Martin. Working Oxen. Princes Risborough England Shire 1999. See also Animal breeding Animal domestication Livestock and animal husbandr y Transportation energy use in. Animals as a medical resource Category Plant and animal resources The use of animals has been a critical component of both human medical research and veterinar y research. Although animal research has become a source of controversy among the public nearly all modern medical advances have been based on some form of animal research. Background Animals have served purposes related to medicine for centuries. They provided medical products for apothecaries in medieval Europe and for traditional Chinese medicine. Most applications such as the use of ground rhinoceros horn as an aphrodisiac were based on nonscientific concepts that have been discarded by modern medicine. However some techniques such as the use of spiderweb to stop bleeding functioned until more effective products became available. More recently insulin used to treat diabetes was first harvested from the pancreatic glands of cattle or pigs used in the meat industr y however the foreign animal proteins sometimes caused allergic reactions. Today genetically engineered bacteria can provide many hormone products that previously were extracted from animals. Animals have also provided .
