Researching Animal Research

What the Humanities and Social Sciences Can Contribute to Laboratory Animal Science and Welfare
Through a sustained and critical engagement with the histories, social relations and cultures surrounding animal research, this book asks what the sector can teach us about the relations between science, society and animals in the twenty-first century.

Every year around 80 million scientific procedures are carried out on animals globally. These experiments have the potential to generate new understandings of biology and clinical treatments. They also give rise to ongoing societal debate.

This book demonstrates how the humanities and social sciences can contribute to understanding what is created through animal procedures – including constitutional forms of research governance, different institutional cultures of care, the professional careers of scientists and veterinarians, collaborations with patients and publics, and research animals, specially bred for experiments or surplus to requirements.

Developing the idea of the animal research nexus, this book explores how connections and disconnections are made between these different elements, how these have reshaped each other historically, and how they configure the current practice and policy of UK animal research.

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

Contributor: Gail Davies (Edited by), Beth Greenhough (Edited by), Pru Hobson-West (Edited by), Robert G. W. Kirk (Edited by), Alexandra Palmer (Edited by), Emma Roe (Edited by)

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