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The Ethical Case Against Animal Experiments

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The Ethical Case against Animal Experiments begins with a groundbreaking and comprehensive ethical critique of the practice of animal experiments by the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. A second section offers original writings that engage with, and elaborate on, aspects of the Oxford Centre report. The essayists explore historical, philosophical, and personal perspectives that range from animal experiments in classical times to the place of necessity in animal research to one researcher’s painful journey from researcher to opponent. A devastating look at a contemporary moral crisis, this resource melds logic to compassion to mount a powerful challenge to human cruelty…

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At present, human beings worldwide are using an estimated 115.3 million animals in experiments “a normalization of the unthinkable on an immense scale. In terms of harm, pain, suffering, and death, animal experiments constitute one of the major moral issues of our time. Given today’s deeper understanding of animal sentience, we must afford animals a special moral consideration that precludes their use in experiments. The Ethical Case against Animal Experiments begins with a groundbreaking and comprehensive ethical critique of the practice of animal experiments by the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. A second section offers original writings that engage with, and elaborate on, aspects of the Oxford Centre report. The essayists explore historical, philosophical, and personal perspectives that range from animal experiments in classical times to the place of necessity in animal research to one researcher’s painful journey from researcher to opponent. A devastating look at a contemporary moral crisis, The Ethical Case against Animal Experiments melds logic to compassion to mount a powerful challenge to human cruelty. 228 p.

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Authors expertises affiliations

  • Andrew Linzey, Editor. Director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.
  • Clair Linzey, Editor. Deputy director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, Assistant editor of the “Journal of Animal Ethics”.
  • Publication date (digital version): 2017-12 – University of Illinois Press; Copyright © 2018 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.

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8 September 2018

Essential reading. A comprehensive ethical analysis of animal experiments. Bound to become a classic

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Sir David Madden
8 September 2018

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.

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J. M. Coetzee