Ethical Case Against Animal Experiments

Andrew Linzey is the director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. He has written or edited twenty books, including Animal Theology and The Global Guide to Animal Protection. Clair Linzey is the deputy director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and associate editor of the Journal of Animal Ethics.

"This well-referenced A4-sized volume performs the valuable service of throwing open the doors of a hidden world and exposing the multiple ethical compromises that perpetuate it." --Studies in Christian Ethics"At a time when the necessity for animal experimentation has been called more and more into doubt, the Linzeys show how deep-seated research paradigms, institutional inertia, and money from the biomedical industry can persuade an esteemed university like Oxford to press on with practices that to any dispassionate observer must seem barbaric. Their analysis is backed up by an impressive set of essays by philosophers, lawyers, and scientists."--J. M. Coetzee, Nobel Laureate for Literature"Essential reading. A comprehensive ethical analysis of animal experiments. Bound to become a classic."--Sir David Madden, Senior Member, St Antony's College, Oxford

• Title PageCopyrightContentsINTRODUCTION. Oxford: The Home of Controversy about AnimalsPART 1. NORMALIZING THE UNTHINKABLE: THE ETHICS OF USING ANIMALS IN RESEARCHIntroduction to the Report1.1 The Scale of the Problem1.2 The Old Debate1.3 The New Scientific Critiques1.4 The Changing Ethical Paradigm1.5 The Putative Justifications1.6 The Problem of Institutionalization1.7 The Failure of Control1.8 Undercover Investigations1.9 Consideration of Counterarguments1.10 Summary and ConclusionsBibliographyPART 2. THE SUPPORTING ESSAYS2.1 Animal Experimentation in Classical Antiquity2.2 Gender and the Animal Experiments Controversy in Nineteenth-Century America2.3 Is "Necessity" a Useful Concept in Animal Research Ethics?2.4 Science Fiction and Science Fact: Ethics and Nonhuman Animal Experiments2.5 Harms versus Benefits: A Practical Critique of Utilitarian Calculations2.6 Utilitarian Benefit and Uncertainty under Emergent Systems2.7 Do Moral Principles Permit Experimenting on Nonconsenting Beings?2.8 Can Animal Experiments Be Ethically Acceptable When They Are Not Scientifically Defensible?2.9 A Rawlsian Case against Animal Experimentation2.10 The Harms of Captivity within Laboratories and Afterward2.11 When Harry Meets Harry: An Ethical Assessment of Harry Harlow's Maternal Deprivation ExperimentAbout the Editors, Contributors, and Members of the Working GroupIndex