Robert C. Hubrecht

The Welfare of Animals Used in Research

Practice and Ethics

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Produktbeschreibung

Published as part of the prestigious Wiley-Blackwell -UFAW Animal Welfare series.
A complete and balanced overview of the issues surrounding theuse of animals in scientific research, with a focuson animal welfare implications and ethics of animals inresearch.

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The Welfare of Animals used in Research: Practice andEthics gives a complete and balanced overview of the issuessurrounding the use of animals in scientific research. Thefocus of the book is on the animal welfare implications and ethicsof animals in research. It covers the topics with sufficient depthto show a real understanding of varied and complex subjects, butconveys the information in a beautifully reader-friendlymanner.

Key features:

Provides those who are not working in the field with areasonable understanding as to why and how animals are used inresearch.
Gives an introduction to the ethical issues involved in usinganimals, and explains how these are addressed in practice.
Details the advances in animal welfare and the use anddevelopment of the 3Rs principles, and how these have becomefundamental to the everyday use and regulation of animals used inresearch.
The focus is on principles making it suitable for aninternational audience.
This book is a useful introduction to the issues involved inlaboratory animal welfare for those who intend to work in researchinvolving animals. It is also useful to prospective animal carestaff and animal welfare scientists, and to those involved inethical review. It will help inform debate amongst those who arenot involved in experimentation but who are interested in theissues.

Published as a part of the prestigious Wiley-Blackwell - UFAWAnimal Welfare series. UFAW, founded 1926, is aninternationally recognised, independent, scientific and educationalanimal welfare charity.

For full details of all titles available in the series, pleasevisit the UFAW AnimalWelfare series website.

Produktdetails

• UFAW Animal Welfare Series
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 167mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 555g
• ISBN-13: 9781119967071
• ISBN-10: 1119967074
• Artikelnr.: 39381628

Autorenporträt

Robert Hubrecht OBE BSc PhD FSB is Deputy Scientific Director of the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW) and is an acclaimed scholar in this area. He is a zoologist who has specialised in ethology and applied ethology and has studied the behaviour and physiology of animals both in the wild and in the laboratory. He is co-editor of The UFAW Handbook on the Care and Management of Laboratory and Other Research Animals.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword vii Preface ix Dedication and Acknowledgements xi 1 Introduction 1
1.1 Reasons for Using Animals in Research 1 1.2 Where Animal Research is
Carried Out 3 1.3 Numbers of Animals Used 4 1.4 Harmful and Harmless
Research 6 1.5 How Much Suffering is Caused by Research? 7 1.6 Attitudes to
Animal Experimentation 9 1.7 The Moral Imperative 18 1.8 Trust in the
System 22 2 The Use of Legislative and Other Controls on Animal Research to
Meet Public Expectations and Improve Animal Welfare 26 2.1 Introduction 26
2.2 Levels of Control 29 2.3 Scope of Controls 37 2.4 Systems for Ethical
Review and Authorisation 42 2.5 Performance and Engineering Standards 45
2.6 Roles and Responsibility 50 2.7 Legislation and Licences 51 2.8
Enforcement and Failure to Comply 52 3 Animal Rights and Animal Welfare:
Philosophy and Science 58 3.1 Introduction 58 3.2 Animal Rights and Animal
Welfare: Making a Distinction 59 3.3 Animal Welfare Science 63 3.4 Funding
and Promoting Animal Welfare Research 85 3.5 The Benefits of Animal Welfare
Science 86 4 Species Choice and Animal Welfare 88 4.1 Introduction 88 4.2
Consciousness/Sentience: Evidence for Protecting Particular Taxa 89 4.3 Are
Some Species Capable of Suffering More Than Others? Neurological Complexity
and Capacity to Suffer 104 4.4 Beastly Bias in Practice 108 4.5 An
Evolutionary Approach to Assessing Suffering 120 5 The Harm-Benefit
Judgement 123 5.1 Introduction 123 5.2 Who Should Be Involved? 126 5.3
Factors To Be Considered in Harm-Benefit Decisions 129 5.4 Decision Tools
154 5.5 The Requirement for Ethical Review 157 6 Improving the Welfare of
Animals Used in Research: The 3Rs 159 6.1 Introduction: The Origins of the
3Rs 159 6.2 Replacement 163 6.3 Reduction 169 6.4 Refinement 175 6.5
Conflicts Between the 3Rs 201 6.6 Training 202 6.7 Sources of Information
on the 3Rs 203 7 Science and Animal Welfare: A Partnership 205 7.1
Replacement Methods: Scientific and Other Advantages 205 7.2 Reduction:
Scientific and Other Advantages 209 7.3 Refinement: Scientific and Other
Advantages 210 7.4 Changes in Laboratory Animal Science and Challenges for
the Future? 219 7.5 Maintaining the Momentum 223 7.6 Conclusion 224
References 226 Glossary 259 Index 262

Rezensionen

"This book is geared toward members of institutional animal care and use committees, researchers, and veterinarians and is a practical guide for discussions pertaining to the welfare of animals used in research." (JAVMA, 15 December 2014)

"To me, overall this is a very good book that provides a balanced view of the issues around animal welfare. It is a good read." (Laboratory Animal Practitioner, 1 October 2014)

"Overall, the factual description of how animals are used in research balanced by the author's personal experiences and perspective makes this book highly readable. 'The Welfare of Animals used in Research' is a great addition, which will be essential reading for those working with laboratory animals and of general interest to those new to the field." (Veterinary Record, 12 July 2014)