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Animal experimentation : a guide to the issues /
"Animal Experimentation is an important book for all those involved in the conduct, teaching, learning, regulation, support or critique of animal-based research. Whilst maintaining the clarity of style that made the first edition so popular, this second edition has been updated to include discu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Issues in Animal Experimentation. Aims
- Definitions
- Scope
- A History of Animal Experimentation. The origins of vivisection in Europe
- Prevailing humanist attitudes to animals
- The rise of modern biomedical studies
- Opposition to Animal Experimentation. Early opposition
- Utilitarianism and the rise of popular concern
- Revolution during the nineteenth century
- Beyond Britain: opposition in the USA into the twentieth century
- The Moral Status of Animals. On the moral status of animals
- Moral arguments based on reason
- Ethics: room for emotion?
- Moral stewardship
- Animal Use. How are animals used?
- Fundamental and applied biological research
- Genetic research
- Behavioural research
- Education and training
- Production of useful biological and therapeutic materials
- Product testing
- The Regulation of Experiments. Laws governing humane use of laboratory animals
- United Kingdom
- Australia and New Zealand
- United States of America
- Seeking Alternatives. Replacement, reduction and refinement
- Alternatives to non-human vertebrates in scientific research
- The construction of a modern research institution
- Ethical guidelines for students in laboratory classes involving the use of animals or animal tissues.