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.
Edited by:
Gail Davies,
Beth Greenhough,
Pru Hobson-West,
Robert G. W. Kirk,
Alexandra Palmer
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
Spine: 27mm
Weight: 701g
ISBN: 9781526165756
ISBN 10: 1526165759
Series: Inscriptions
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 01 February 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
General/trade
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction Gail Davies, Beth Greenhough, Pru Hobson-West, Robert G. W. Kirk, Alexandra Palmer, and Emma Roe Part I Changing and implementing regulation 1 A ‘fragile consensus’? The origins of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 Dmitriy Myelnikov 2 Outside of regulations, outside of imaginations: why is it challenging to care about horseshoe crabs? Richard Gorman 3 ‘The place for a dog is in the home’: why does species matter when rehoming laboratory animals? Tess Skidmore 4 Commentaries on changing and implementing regulation Edited by Robert G. W. Kirk 4.1 Accentuate the positive … silence the negative Liz Tyson 4.2 The institutional life of animals Amy Hinterberger 4.3 Regulatory connections and challenges Robert G. W. Kirk Part II Culturing and sustaining care 5 Subjugated love: aligning care with science in the history of laboratory animal research Robert G. W. Kirk 6 Culturing care in animal research Beth Greenhough and Emma Roe 7 The good aquarist: morality, emotions, and expectations of care in zebrafish aquariums Reuben Message 8 Commentaries on culturing and sustaining care Edited by Beth Greenhough 8.1 Balancing the personal and the professional when culturing care in animal research Jordi L. Tremoleda and Angela Kerton 8.2 Incommensurable care Eva Haifa Giraud 8.3 What constitutes care-in-practice? Beth Greenhough Part III Distributing expertise and accountability 9 (Dis)placing veterinary medicine: veterinary borderlands in laboratory animal research Alistair Anderson and Pru Hobson-West 10 ‘Field folk’: citizen scientists and the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act Alexandra Palmer 11 ‘Knowledge is power, and I do want to know more’: exploring assumptions around patient involvement in animal research Gail Davies, Richard Gorman, and Gabrielle King 12 ‘Bred, but not used’: understandings of avoidable and unavoidable waste in animal research Sara Peres and Emma Roe 13 Commentaries on distributing expertise and accountability Edited by Pru Hobson-West 13.1 Outsiders on the inside: citizens and scholars in animal research Larry Carbone 13.2 Moving forward: the need for more meaningful conversations around animal research Ngaire Dennison 13.3 Experts and expertise in researching animal research Pru Hobson-West Part IV Experimenting with openness and engagement 14 The Mouse Exchange: what can curiosity-driven public engagement activities contribute to dialogues about animal research? Emma Roe, Sara Peres, and Bentley Crudgington 15 Labelling medicines as developed using animals? Opening up the topic of animal research Renelle McGlacken and Pru Hobson-West 16 Building participation through fictional worlds Bentley Crudgington, Natalie Scott, Joe Thorpe, and Amy Fleming 17 Commentaries on experimenting with openness and engagement Edited by Emma Roe 17.1 Changing openness agendas in animal research Bella Lear 17.2 Can I be honest? Querying kinship and communication in animal research Louise Mackenzie 17.3 Are we asking the right questions about openness? Emma Roe Afterword Carrie Friese Index -- .
Gail Davies is Professor in Human Geography at the University of Exeter Beth Greenhough is Professor in Human Geography and Fellow of Keble College at the University of Oxford Pru Hobson-West is Professor of Science, Medicine and Society at the University of Nottingham Robert G. W. Kirk is Reader in Medical History and Humanities at the University of Manchester Alexandra Palmer is a Research Fellow in the School of Biological Sciences and School of Social Sciences at the University of Auckland Emma Roe is Professor in Human Geography at the University of Southampton
