Researching animal research : : What the humanities and social sciences can contribute to laboratory animal science and welfare / / ed. by Beth Greenhough, Gail Davies, Pru Hobson-West, Robert G. W. Kirk, Alexandra Palmer, Emma Roe.

• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Alistair,; Carbone, Larry,; Crudgington, Bentley,; Davies, Gail,; Dennison, Ngaire,; Fleming, Amy,; Friese, Carrie,; G. W. Kirk, Robert,; Giraud, Eva Haifa,; Gorman, Richard,; Greenhough, Beth,; Hinterberger, Amy,; Hobson-West, Pru,; Kerton, Angela,; King, Gabrielle,; Kirk, Robert G. W.,; Lear, Bella,; Mackenzie, Louise,; McGlacken, Renelle,; Message, Reuben,; Myelnikov, Dmitriy,; Palmer, Alexandra,; Peres, Sara,; Roe, Emma,; Scott, Natalie,; Skidmore, Tess,; Thorpe, Joe,; Tremoleda, Jordi L.,; Tyson, Liz,
• HerausgeberIn: Davies, Gail,; Greenhough, Beth,; Hobson-West, Pru,; Kirk, Robert G. W.,; Palmer, Alexandra,; Roe, Emma,
• Place / Publishing House: Manchester : : Manchester University Press, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Series: Inscriptions
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (480 p.) :; 25 b&w images

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I Changing and implementing regulation -- 1 A ‘fragile consensus’? The origins of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 -- 2 Outside of regulations, outside of imaginations -- 3 ‘The place for a dog is in the home’ -- 4 Commentaries on changing and implementing regulation -- II Culturing and sustaining care -- 5 Subjugated love -- 6 Culturing care in animal research -- 7 The good aquarist -- 8 Commentaries on culturing and sustaining care -- III Distributing expertise and accountability -- 9 (Dis)placing veterinary medicine -- 10 ‘Field folk’ -- 11 ‘Knowledge is power, and I do want to know more’ -- 12 ‘Bred, but not used’ -- 13 Commentaries on distributing expertise and accountability -- IV Experimenting with openness and engagement -- 14 The Mouse Exchange -- 15 Labelling medicines as developed using animals? Opening up the topic of animal research -- 16 Building participation through fictional worlds -- 17 Commentaries on experimenting with openness and engagement -- Afterword -- Select bibliography -- Index