From the pro-vivisection ANZCCART newsletter on the world wide web:
http://www.adelaide.edu.au/ANZCCART/currentissue.html

Dame Ann Ballin retired on 31 December 1997 as the inaugural Chairman of ANZCCART New Zealand, a position she held for five years. Her successor is Mr John Martin.

Mr John Martin, MA(Hons), is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy in the School of Business and Public Management at Victoria University in Wellington. Before coming to Victoria University in 1988 he was a New Zealand public servant for more than 30 years.

In 1981 he was appointed to the position of Deputy Director General (Administrative) in the Department of Health; he was also Chairman of the Health Services Personnel Commission between 1984 and 1988.

Mr Martin is an Honorary Lecturer at Otago University (Wellington School of Medicine) where he teaches in the public health program. He has recently been a consultant to the OECD on accountability in government.

Bio sketch:
Public Servant 1953-88 (Department of Island Territories; Treasury - Assistant Secretary, 1975-80; Director, New Zealand Planning Council 1980; Department of Health 1981-87 - Deputy Director-General (Administrative).

by Moneim A. Fadali MD
Hidden Springs Press, PO Box 29613, Los Angeles, CA90029, USA
Details of how to obtain this book
234 pages, 1996
Review by Phil Clayton

NZAVS members who have such knowledge that they would achieve an A-pass in an exam on anti-vivisection (should such an exam exist), will instantly connect the name Moneim Fadali with the quote, "Animal experimentation inevitably lead to human experimentation". Indeed this book contains a chapter detailing just what this statement means. That animal experiments provide no information as to the human condition, so that the real experiment is when the procedure is trialled on humans ie animal experimentation and human experimentation are one and the same thing as one leads to the other.

Dr Fadali's book covers both the ethical and scientific objections to vivisection. He writes in quite a ranting style, so the book is very readable for the layperson. As a practising vascular and cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr Fadali is able to provide examples and anecdotes from his own experience to support his writing. With forewords from such notables as Prof. Pietro Croce this book provides a solid introduction to the scientific arguments against vivisection.

"Dr Fadali has taken a complex and difficult issue and rendered it comprehensible. He examines animal experimentation, not only from an ethical standpoint, but alos from an eminently practical view of the problems it has caused for both doctors and patients."
Neal D. Barnard, MD
President
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Washington DC.