The ethical case against animal experiments / edited by Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey.

"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 underst...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Linzey, Andrew (Editor)
Linzey, Clair (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Urbana [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Animal experimentation > Moral and ethical aspects.
Animal experimentation.
Physical Description:216 pages ; 28 cm
Format: Book
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.