Researching Animal Research: What the Humanities and Social Sciences Can Contribute to Laboratory Animal Science and Welfare

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.


About the Author

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