Pietro Croce

Pietro Croce (born January 16, 1920 in Apiro (MC) , Italy , † October 16, 2006 in Vicenza , Italy) was an Italian microbiologist , pathologist and medical writer.

Life

Pietro Croce received his PhD from the University of Pisa . He then attended the Scuola Normale Superiore . He went to the USA with a scholarship from the Institute of International Education in New York and the Fulbright Commission . First he worked in the research department of the National Jewish Hospital of the University of Colorado Denver , before moving to the laboratory and research department of the University of Toledo , Ohio . He returned to Europe as a scholarship holder of the Ciudad Sanatorial de Terrasa , Barcelona , Spain . From 1952 to 1982 Pietro Croce was chief physician in charge of the laboratory for chemical-clinical analyzes, microbiology and pathological anatomy at the L. Sacco Hospital in Milan. He then moved to a clinic in Vicenza, Italy, as a pathologist. He was a member of the College of American Pathologists, a freelance lecturer at the University of Milan and the author of various medical works published in Italy and Spain.

The reading of the book Nackte Herrscherin by Hans Ruesch , which is critical of animal experiments and which appeared in Italy in 1976, triggered a radical rethinking process by Pietro Croce. He decided to break away from the animal experimental system, as, in his opinion, it is based on a methodological error and has not only delayed the development of scientific methods, but is also responsible for numerous iatrogenic damage and has created the basis for a medicine that creates more diseases than it can cure. In an essay from 1996, in which he summarizes the position of his book Vivisezione O Scienza: Una Scelta (German: Tierversuch oder Wissenschaft: Eine Wahl , 1988), he comes to the following conclusion:

“The Ptolemaic system was coherent and even useful: its cosmography showed seafarers the way, despite the fundamental error. But when the falseness of the whole system had been proven, it could finally be thrown into the history of science rubbish. Animal experiments are also based on a fundamental flaw, which is why it should be abolished, like the Ptolemaic system. "

- Pietro Croce : Either Animal Testing - or Science (1996)

After opting out of his previous medical career, he advocated the complete abolition of all animal experiments . The fact that he himself experimented with animals as a biologist for over 20 years and needed such lengthy, laborious personal experience to come to the conclusion that animal experiments should be rejected, confronted him several times with allegations from scientific circles.

Pietro Croce was president of the International League of Doctors Against Vivisection (ILDAV) and Honorary President, founded in London on 22 March 1990 Association Doctors in Britain against Animal Experiments (DBAE) reflecting in Doctors and Lawyers for Responsible Medicine (DLRM) was renamed . In addition, he was a board member of the German association Doctors Against Animal Experiments, which Herbert Stiller co-founded in 1979 .

Publications

• Vivisezione O Scienza: Una Scelta .
  • German: animal experiment or science: a choice. Book publisher CIVIS Publications, Massagno, September 1988, ISBN 3-905280-05-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pietro Croce: Animal Experimentation or Science: A Choice. Book publisher CIVIS Publications, Massagno, September 1988, ISBN 3-905280-05-7 , p. 7.
2. ^ Pietro Croce: Either animal experiments - or science. In: Rieg, Völlm, Feddersen, Gericke: About corpses for exams? 2nd, revised edition. TIMONA-Verlag, Bochum 1996, ISBN 3-928781-32-4 , pp. 333-334.
3. ^ Pietro Croce: Either animal experiments - or science. In: Rieg, Völlm, Feddersen, Gericke: About corpses for exams? 2nd, revised edition. TIMONA-Verlag, Bochum 1996, ISBN 3-928781-32-4 , p. 337.