Hans Ruesch (17 May 1913 – 27 August 2007) was a Swiss racing driver, a novelist, and an internationally prominent activist against animal experiments and vivisection.

He lived the first 14 years of his life in Naples, where his father was a textile industrialist and a specialist in Pompeian Art.

During the 1930s, he drove several Alfa Romeo and Maserati racing and sports cars at many smaller events throughout Europe.

[1][3] In the late 1930s, Ruesch moved to the United States, publishing short fiction in popular magazines.

Director Nicholas Ray wrote the screenplay for the movie of Ruesch's novel, Top of the World.

At a trading post, Inuk accidentally kills a missionary, who insulted him by refusing the traditional Inuit (sexual) hospitality of wife-sharing.

Kirk Douglas starred as Gino Borgesa, a reckless Formula One driver, ensnared by speed, adrenaline, and a Hollywood 1950s romance.

Instead, Ruesch insisted that medicine was led dangerously astray by what he saw as pseudo-science, and a fatally false methodology.

[1] He wrote the Slaughter of the Innocent (Bantam, 1978) and the Naked Empress, or The Great Medical Fraud, as well as publishing "The International Foundation Report Dedicated to the Abolition of Vivisection".

His first book on the subject was written and published in European countries with a title in each language that would translate into English as "The Naked Empress."

Some years later, Ruesch wrote a second book criticising vivisection, in English, which was released (again, by Civitas) in the United States, with the title "The Naked Empress, or the Great Medical Fraud".