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Author LaFollette, Hugh

Title Brute Science
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (299 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I Understanding the debate; 1 A FIRST LOOK: THE PRIMA-FACIE CASES; 2 THE PROBLEMS OF RELEVANCE; 3 CLAUDE BERNARD: THE FOUNDER OF THE PARADIGM; 4 THE CURRENT PARADIGM; 5 EVOLUTION I: SPECIES AND SPECIES DIFFERENCES; 6 EVOLUTION II: THE WIDENING SYNTHESIS; Part II Evaluating animal experimentation: the scientific issues; 7 CAUSAL DISANALOGY I: STRONG MODELS AND THEORETICAL EXPECTATIONS; 8 CAUSAL DISANALOGY II: THE EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; 9 CAUSAL DISANALOGY III: WEAK MODELS; 10 EVADING CAUSAL DISANALOGY: IT JUST WORKS
11 AVOIDING CAUSAL DISANALOGY: TRANSGENIC ANIMALS12 BASIC RESEARCH; Part III Evaluating animal experimentation: the moral issues; 13 THE MORAL DEBATE IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT; 14 SPECIESISM: THE DEONTOLOGICAL DEFENSE; 15 INCALCULABLE BENEFITS: THE CONSEQUENTIALIST DEFENSE; 16 CONCLUSION; Bibliography; Index
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Subject Animal experimentation -- Social aspects
Animal experimentation -- Moral and ethical aspects
Animal experimentation -- Moral and ethical aspects
Animal experimentation -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Shanks, Niall
ISBN 9781134790272
1134790279