What Animals Want: Expertise and Advocacy in Laboratory Animal Welfare Policy

by Larry Carbone

Overview

Larry Carbone, a veterinarian who is in charge of the lab animal welfare assurance program at a major research university, presents this scholarly history of animal rights. Biomedical researchers, and the less fanatical among the animal rights activists will find this book reasonable, humane, and novel in its perspective. It brings a novel, sociological perspective to an area that has been addressed largely from a philosophical perspective, or from the entrenched positions of highly committed advocates of a particular position in the debate.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199882991
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/01/2004
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

University of California, San Francisco

Table of Contents

1	Introduction: What animals want	3
2	Life in the animal laboratory	23
3	Animal welfare: Philosophy meets science	44
4	A rat is a pig: The significance of species	67
5	Performance standards: How big is your guinea pig's house?	96
6	Centaurs and science: The professionalization of laboratory animal care and use	116
7	The problem of pain	141
8	The animal advocates	165
9	Death by decapitation: A case study	186
10	Dog walkers and monkey psychiatrists	206
11	A look to the future	239
	Glossary	245
	Notes	249
	References	265
	Index	285

Editorial Reviews

"[The book] is the result of extensive research by the author, but this is no dry, academic treatment: with his decades of experience as a laboratory animal veterinarian, Larry Carbone knows at first hand what he's talking about. ...I would recommend the book to anyone who chooses to consider the responsibility we bear, as a society, for the millions of animals who, for our benefit, live and die in research establishments worldwide."—Animal Welfare

"Carbone's excellent new book, What Animals Want, is the fruit of extensive research he conducted to discover what determines how we view laboratory animals and why policies concerning their care have developed as they have."— American Scientist

"What Animals Want is an outstanding contribution the field of animal welfare. Clearly written and engaging, it has something to offer both a general audience and those who are intimately involved in the issues under discussion— animal protectionists, veterinarians and scientists, for whom it is a 'must read.' It is written by a realistic, knowledgable individual who daily weighs the cost and benefits of animal research"—American Scientist

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