Brute Science

Name: Brute Science
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Dilemmas of Animal Experimentation

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Philosophical Issues in Science

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Animal experimentation is one of the most controversial areas of debate on animal rights. Biomedical research is at the hard edge of these debates. It throws up fundamental questions of moral value, of whether human life is more important than that of animals. Much experimentation is defended by its apparent success in terms of increasing medical knowledge. Brute Science investigates whether biomedical research using animals is, in fact, scientifically justified. Hugh LaFollette and Niall Shanks show that in scientific terms using the models that scientists themselves use these claims are exaggerated, or even false. They argue that we need to reassess our use of animals and, indeed, rethink the standard positions in the debate. Their analysis reveals why research using animals might be a rich source of hypotheses about human biomedical phenomena, yet would never prove or establish anything about this phenomena. Brute Science represents an important new analysis for philosophers, public policy analysts, animal rights activists, medical students, and anyone involved in research using animals.

Author Biography:

Hugh LaFollette is Professor of Philosophy at East Tennessee State University; he is the author of Personal Relationships: Love, Identity, and Morality (1995) and editor of Ethics in Practice: An Anthology ( 1996). Niall Shanks is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Biological Sciences at East Tennessee State University.

Release date Australia

January 2nd, 1997

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Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Pages

298

Series

Philosophical Issues in Science

Dimensions

140x216x27

ISBN-13

9780415131131

Product ID

2826620

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