The Sacrifice: How Scientific Experiments Transform Animals and People

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Purdue University Press, 2007 - Animal experimentation - 224 pages
The Sacrifice provides a uniquely detailed account of the sociological context of animal experimentation. The authors provide a rich analysis of complex and changing role of the laboratory animal in the political and scientific culture of the United States and the United Kingdom. By understanding the interplay of the groups, the authors view the experimental controversy as an ongoing and constantly recreated set of social processes, not just a problem of morality.
 

Contents

Demarcating Social Boundaries
114
Regulating Research
119
Managing Identities
127
CONFRONTING THE PUBLIC
129
Politics Animal Rights Activism and the Battle for Hearts and Minds
133
Activists as Antihuman
134
Activists as Dishonest
136
Activists as Criminal
139

Standardization and Replicability
42
Animal Models?
46
Modeling Standardization and Transgenics
49
ImplicationsGeneralizing from Animal Models
51
Lab Animal Identities
54
Representing Animals Unsung Heroes and Partners in Research
57
The Lab Animal in Scientific Articles
58
Animals in Laboratory Advertisements
62
Emerging Identities and Animal Representations
69
ACQUIRING IDENTITIES
75
Becoming a Biologist
77
Learning to Dissect
79
Using Live Animals
83
Cyberfrogs and Meanings
88
Dissecting Identities
90
The Division of Emotional Labor
93
Shared Coping Skills
95
The Technicians Burden
99
Coping Strategies and Emerging Identities
106
Organizing and Regulating Lab Work
111
Occupying the Middle Ground
142
Surely Theyre Worth a Few Laboratory Animals?
146
New Dilemmas and Research Advocacy?
149
Rationality Stigma and the General Public
153
Dealing with Stigma
154
Managing Reproach
157
Excluding Irrational Others
161
Whose Views Get to Count?
163
Who Has the Expertise about Animals?
167
Confronting the Public
170
Making Publics Scientists and Laboratory Animals
173
What Does the Public Think?
176
Calculating Costs and Benefits
179
From Strain and Model to Hybrid and Product
182
Making and Unmaking Animals and People
185
Who or What Is the Laboratory Animal?
187
Notes
191
References
203
Index
217
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Arnold Arluke is the co-author of Regarding Animals, which won the Charles Horton Cooley Book Award, and Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. He is also the associate editor of Society and Animals, and co-editor of Temple University's series in Animals, Culture and History. Since joining the Northeastern faculty, he has developed a reputation for bringing enthusiasm to the classroom and making learning enjoyable and has won the University's outstanding teaching award.

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