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Why animal experimentation matters : the use of animals in medical research / edited by Ellen Frankel Paul and Jeffrey Paul.

Title
Why animal experimentation matters : the use of animals in medical research / edited by Ellen Frankel Paul and Jeffrey Paul.
Publication
New Brunswick, [N.J.] : Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation : Transaction, 2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Paul, Ellen Frankel
  • Paul, Jeffrey
Description
ix, 224 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
This work is an attempt by research scientists and moral philosophers to mount a defence against animal rights enthusiasts. Contributors scrutinize how animal experimentation functions in the laboratory, the role that it plays in eradicating disease, and the moral justification for using animals.
Series Statement
[New studies in social policy ; 2]
Uniform Title
New studies in social policy 2].
Alternative Title
Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation
Subject
  • Animal Welfare
  • Animal experimentation > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Animal models in research > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Animals > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Animals, Laboratory
  • Medicine > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Research
Note
  • Series statement on jacket.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / Ellen Frankel Paul -- Experimental animals in medical research : a history / Kenneth F. Kiple, Kriemhild Conee Ornelas -- Making choices in the laboratory / Adrian R. Morrison -- Basic research, applied research, animal ethics, and an animal model of human amnesia / Stuart Zola -- The paradigm shift toward animal happiness : what it is, why it is happening, and what it portends for medical research / Jerrold Tannenbaum -- Defending animal research : an international perspective / Baruch A. Brody -- A Darwinian view of the issues associated with the use of animals in biomedical research / Charles S. Nicoll, Sharon M. Russell -- Animals : their right to be used / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. / Justifying animal experimentation : the starting point / R.G. Frey.
ISBN
  • 076580025X (cloth)
  • 0765806851 (paper)
LCCN
^^^99047844^
OCLC
42692033
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library