Brute science
Subtitle: dilemmas of animal experimentation
By: Hugh LaFollette and Niall Shanks
Contributors: Shanks, Niall, 1959- author
Series: Philosophical issues in science; Philosophical issues in science
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781003060000
Subjects: Animal experimentation; Social aspects; Moral and ethical aspects
Description: Brute Science investigates whether biomedical research using animals is, in fact, scientifically justified. Hugh LaFollette and Niall Shanks examine the issues in scientific terms using the models that scientists themselves use. They argue that we need to reassess our use of animals and, indeed, rethink the standard positions in the debate.
Notes: "First published 1996 by Routledge"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.