| What Animals Want: Expertise and Advocacy in Laboratory Animal Welfare Policy Contributor(s): Carbone, Larry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195161963 ISBN-13: 9780195161960 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $56.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2004 Annotation: Larry Carbone, a veterinarian who is in charge of the lab animal welfare assurance program at a major research university, presents this scholarly history of animal rights. Biomedical researchers, and the less fanatical among the animal rights activists will find this book reasonable, humane, and novel in its perspective. It brings a novel, sociological perspective to an area that has been addressed largely from a philosophical perspective, or from the entrenched positions of highly committed advocates of a particular position in the debate. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Medical | Ethics - Science |
| Dewey: 179.4 |
| LCCN: 2003058032 |
| Lexile Measure: 1460 |
| Physical Information: 0.93" H x 6.45" W x 9.45" (1.32 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Larry Carbone, a veterinarian who is in charge of the lab animal welfare assurance program at a major research university, presents this scholarly history of animal rights. Biomedical researchers, and the less fanatical among the animal rights activists will find this book reasonable, humane, and novel in its perspective. It brings a novel, sociological perspective to an area that has been addressed largely from a philosophical perspective, or from the entrenched positions of highly committed advocates of a particular position in the debate. |