Screen LibraryThe costs and benefits of animal experiments
This comprehensive review of recent scientific evidence examines the contributions of animal experimentation to human healthcare and toxicity prediction, its necessity during life and health sciences education, its impacts on student attitudes toward animals, and the extent to which animals suffer a...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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The Palgrave Macmillan animal ethics series
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230306417 |
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This comprehensive review of recent scientific evidence examines the contributions of animal experimentation to human healthcare and toxicity prediction, its necessity during life and health sciences education, its impacts on student attitudes toward animals, and the extent to which animals suffer as a result. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230243927, 2011. |
| Carrier Form: | 272 p. : 18 figures, 31 13. |
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9780230243927 9780230306417 : 0230306411 : |
| CLC: | Q95 |
| Contents: | List of Tables List of Figures List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Series Preface Introduction PART I ANIMAL COSTS Global Laboratory Animal Use Types of Laboratory Animal Use mpacts on Laboratory Animals PART II HUMAN BENEFITS Human Clinical Utility of Animal Models Human Toxicological Utility of Animal Models Factors Limiting the Human Utility of Animal Models PART III ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIS Non-Animal Research and Testing Methodologies Reduction and Refinement of Laboratory Animal Use PART IV EDUCATIONAL ANIMAL USE AND STUDENT IMPACTS Educational Animal Use Effects of Harmful Animal Use |