Hubrecht The Welfare of Animals Used in Research

Practice and Ethics
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-78304-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
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E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: UFAW Animal Welfare

The Welfare of Animals used in Research: Practice andEthics gives a complete and balanced overview of the issuessurrounding the use of animals in scientific research. Thefocus of the book is on the animal welfare implications and ethicsof animals in research. It covers the topics with sufficient depthto show a real understanding of varied and complex subjects, butconveys the information in a beautifully reader-friendlymanner.
Key features:
* Provides those who are not working in the field with areasonable understanding as to why and how animals are used inresearch.
* Gives an introduction to the ethical issues involved in usinganimals, and explains how these are addressed in practice.
* Details the advances in animal welfare and the use anddevelopment of the 3Rs principles, and how these have becomefundamental to the everyday use and regulation of animals used inresearch.
* The focus is on principles making it suitable for aninternational audience.
This book is a useful introduction to the issues involved inlaboratory animal welfare for those who intend to work in researchinvolving animals. It is also useful to prospective animal carestaff and animal welfare scientists, and to those involved inethical review. It will help inform debate amongst those who arenot involved in experimentation but who are interested in theissues.
Published as a part of the prestigious Wiley-Blackwell - UFAWAnimal Welfare series. UFAW, founded 1926, is aninternationally recognised, independent, scientific and educationalanimal welfare charity.
For full details of all titles available in the series, pleasevisit the UFAW AnimalWelfare series website.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hubrecht, Robert C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword vii
Preface ix
Dedication and Acknowledgements xi
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Reasons for Using Animals in Research 1
1.2 Where Animal Research is Carried Out 3
1.3 Numbers of Animals Used 4
1.4 Harmful and Harmless Research 6
1.5 How Much Suffering is Caused by Research? 7
1.6 Attitudes to Animal Experimentation 9
1.7 The Moral Imperative 18
1.8 Trust in the System 22
2 The Use of Legislative and Other Controls on AnimalResearch to Meet Public Expectations and Improve Animal Welfare26
2.1 Introduction 26
2.2 Levels of Control 29
2.3 Scope of Controls 37
2.4 Systems for Ethical Review and Authorisation 42
2.5 Performance and Engineering Standards 45
2.6 Roles and Responsibility 50
2.7 Legislation and Licences 51
2.8 Enforcement and Failure to Comply 52
3 Animal Rights and Animal Welfare: Philosophy and Science58
3.1 Introduction 58
3.2 Animal Rights and Animal Welfare: Making a Distinction59
3.3 Animal Welfare Science 63
3.4 Funding and Promoting Animal Welfare Research 85
3.5 The Benefits of Animal Welfare Science 86
4 Species Choice and Animal Welfare 88
4.1 Introduction 88
4.2 Consciousness/Sentience: Evidence for Protecting ParticularTaxa 89
4.3 Are Some Species Capable of Suffering More Than Others?Neurological Complexity and Capacity to Suffer 104
4.4 Beastly Bias in Practice 108
4.5 An Evolutionary Approach to Assessing Suffering 120
5 The Harm-Benefit Judgement 123
5.1 Introduction 123
5.2 Who Should Be Involved? 126
5.3 Factors To Be Considered in Harm-Benefit Decisions129
5.4 Decision Tools 154
5.5 The Requirement for Ethical Review 157
6 Improving the Welfare of Animals Used in Research: The 3Rs159
6.1 Introduction: The Origins of the 3Rs 159
6.2 Replacement 163
6.3 Reduction 169
6.4 Refinement 175
6.5 Conflicts Between the 3Rs 201
6.6 Training 202
6.7 Sources of Information on the 3Rs 203
7 Science and Animal Welfare: A Partnership 205
7.1 Replacement Methods: Scientific and Other Advantages 205
7.2 Reduction: Scientific and Other Advantages 209
7.3 Refinement: Scientific and Other Advantages 210
7.4 Changes in Laboratory Animal Science and Challenges for theFuture? 219
7.5 Maintaining the Momentum 223
7.6 Conclusion 224
References 226
Glossary 259
Index 262

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Hubrecht OBE BSc PhD FSB is Deputy ScientificDirector of the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW)and is an acclaimed scholar in this area. He is a zoologistwho has specialised in ethology and applied ethology and hasstudied the behaviour and physiology of animals both in the wildand in the laboratory. He is co-editor of The UFAW Handbook onthe Care and Management of Laboratory and Other ResearchAnimals.