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Author Orlans, F. Barbara.

Title In the name of science : issues in responsible animal experimentation / F. Barbara Orlans
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1993

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Description ix, 297 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Beginnings of institutionalized animal experimentation: nineteenth-century highlights -- Current attitudes and ethical arguments -- Major issues -- Legislation and the growth of protagonist organizations -- Animal subjects and alternatives -- Protocol review -- Community members on animal review committees -- Animal pain scales in public policy: an international perspective -- Pain, suffering, and death: warm- and cold-blooded vertebrates, mollusks, and insects -- Testing -- From sunshine laws and civil disobedience to raids -- Use of animals in education -- Source of laboratory dogs and cats: pound versus purpose-bred animals -- Editorial responsibilities and issues -- Looking ahead -- Animals used in experimentation, FY 1973-1990 -- Funding sources for targeted programs to promote alternatives -- Sunshine laws
Analysis Science Research Use of Laboratory animals
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Animal experimentation -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Animal experimentation -- Government policy -- United States.
Animal experimentation -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Animal experimentation.
LC no. 92039344
ISBN 0195070437 (alk. paper)
019510871X (paperback)