Animal Experimentation
A Guide to the Issues

This updated third edition is an essential overview for teachers and students in medical and biological sciences, and for those who conduct animal-based research.

Vaughan Monamy (Author)

9781316614945, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 February 2017

136 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 0.8 cm, 0.21 kg

'Animal Experimentation: A Guide to the Issues provides a succinct, accessible, and balanced introduction to the controversy surrounding the use of animals in scientific research, product testing, and education. The latest edition brings the guide up-to-date on a host of developments with respect to legislation, alternative methods, and other topics. The guide's coverage of relevant issues is international in scope, so readers outside of the author's home country (Australia) should not feel ignored. This introduction is especially suited to students planning to begin careers in the biological sciences, including as researchers, veterinarians, teachers, regulators, or administrators.' Martin Stephens, Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing

An essential book for all those who conduct animal-based research or are involved in education and training, as well as regulators, supporters, and opponents alike. This fully updated third edition includes discussion of genetically altered animals and associated welfare and ethical issues that surround the breeding programmes in animal based research. The book discusses the origins of vivisection, the advances in human and non-human welfare made possible by animal experimentation, moral objections, and alternatives to the use of animals in research. It also examines the regulatory umbrella under which experiments are conducted in Europe, USA and Australasia. The author highlights the future responsibilities of researchers who will be working with animals, and offers practical advice on experimental design, literature search, consultation with colleagues, and the importance of the ongoing search for alternatives.

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
6. The regulation of experiments
7. Seeking alternatives
8. A future without animal experimentation?

Subject Areas: Bio-ethics [PSAD], Life sciences: general issues [PSA], Biology, life sciences [PS], Medical ethics & professional conduct [MBDC], Medical & healthcare law [LNTM], Ethics & moral philosophy [HPQ], Philosophy [HP]