The ethical case against animal experiments
Title:
The ethical case against animal experiments
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey.
Publication Information:
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]
Physical Description:
1 online resource (216 pages)
ISBN:
9780252099922
Abstract:
"At present, human beings worldwide are using an estimated 115.3 million animals in experiments--a normalization of the unthinkable on an immense scale. In terms of harm, pain, suffering, and death, animal experiments constitute one of the major moral issues of our time. Given today's deeper understanding of animal sentience, the contributors to this volume argue that we must afford animals a special moral consideration that precludes their use in experiments. The Ethical Case against Animal Experiments begins with the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics's groundbreaking and comprehensive ethical critique of the practice of animal experiments. A second section offers original writings that engage with, and elaborate on, aspects of the Oxford Centre report. The essayists explore historical, philosophical, and personal perspectives that range from animal experiments in classical times to the place of necessity in animal research to one researcher's painful journey from researcher to opponent. A devastating look at a contemporary moral crisis, The Ethical Case against Animal Experiments melds logic and compassion to mount a powerful challenge to human cruelty" -- Provided by publisher.
Local Note:
JSTOR
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical resources and index.
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Contents:
Introduction. Oxford : the home of controversy about animals / Andrew Linzey, Clair Linzey -- part 1. Normalizing the unthinkable : the ethics of using animals in research : a report of the working group of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics -- part 2. Supporting essays. Animal experimentation in classical antiquity / Simon Pulleyn -- Gender and the animal experiments controversy in nineteenth century America / Robyn Hederman -- Is "necessity" a useful concept in animal research ethics? / John Rossi, Samual A. Garner -- Science fiction and science fact : ethics and nonhuman animal experiments / Kay Peggs -- Harms versus benefits : a practical critique of utilitarian calculations / Katy D. Taylor -- Utilitarian benefit and uncertainty under emergent systems / Robert Patrick Stone Lazo -- Do moral principles permit experimenting on nonconsenting beings? / Nedim C. Buyukmihci -- Can animal experiments be ethically acceptable when they are not scientifically defensible? / Jarrod Bailey -- A Rawlsian case against animal experimentation / Carlos Frederico Ramos de Jesus -- Harms of captivity within laboratories and afterward / Elizabeth Tyson -- When Harry meets Harry : an ethical assessment of Harry Harlow's maternal deprivation experiments / Kurt Remele.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 05, 2020).