What Animals Want Expertise and Advocacy in Laboratory Animal Welfare Policy

by Carbone, Larry

• ISBN13: 9780195161960
• ISBN10: 0195161963
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Larry Carbone received doctoral degrees from Cornell University in Veterinary Medicine and in History and Philosophy of Science. He developed the Animal Welfare Assurance Program for the University of California, San Francisco, where he continues to care for research animals

Table of Contents

1 Introduction: What animals want	3	(20)
2 Life in the animal laboratory	23	(21)
3 Animal welfare: Philosophy meets science	44	(23)
4 A rat is a pig: The significance of species	67	(29)
5 Performance standards: How big is your guinea pig's house?	96	(20)
6 Centaurs and science: The professionalization of laboratory animal care and use	116	(25)
7 The problem of pain	141	(24)
8 The animal advocates	165	(21)
9 Death by decapitation: A case study	186	(20)
10 Dog walkers and monkey psychiatrists	206	(33)
11 A look to the future	239	(6)
GLOSSARY	245	(20)
NOTES 249	265	(20)
REFERENCES
INDEX	285