Research Catalog

Title

Animal experimentation : a guide to the issues / Vaughan Monamy.

Author

Monamy, Vaughan, 1958-

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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Holdings

Details

Description

xi, 110 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Animal Experimentation is an important new book for all those involved in the conduct, teaching, learning, regulation, support or critique of animal-based research. For perhaps the first time, all the major issues in the animal experimentation debate are introduced in one volume. This book covers the: history and ethics of experimentation; moral status of animals and the obligations of researchers; regulatory umbrella under which experiments are conducted in Europe, the USA and Australasia; and alternatives to animal research." "Although aimed at life-science students, its clarity of style will enable lay people and experts to read it with equal case. Its balanced treatment covers the arguments that both support and oppose animal experimentation. Here, students and researchers will find a non-intimidating, readily understood introduction to the principal ethical arguments in the animal experimentation debate."--Jacket.

Subject

• Animal Rights
• Animal Testing Alternatives
• Animal Welfare
• Animal experimentation
• Animals, Laboratory
• Bioethics
• Ethics
• Laboratory Animal Science > history
• Laboratory animals
• Research

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [99]-106) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Issues in animal experimentation -- 2. A history of animal experimentation -- 3. Opposition to animal experimentation -- 4. The moral status of animals -- 5. Animal use and the regulation of experiments -- 6. Seeking alternatives -- 7. Conclusions -- Ethical guidelines.

ISBN

• 0521667860 (pb)
• 0521660939 (hb)

LCCN

^^^00027642^^^^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library