What Animals Want: Expertise and Advocacy in Laboratory Animal Welfare Policy

What Animals Want is the result of extensive research conducted by the author to discover what determines how we view laboratory animals and why policies concerning their care have developed as they have. It is an outstanding contribution in the field of animal welfare.  

Table of Contents: 1 Introduction: What animals want; 2 Life in the animal laboratory; 3 Animal Welfare: Philosophy meets science; 4 A rat is a pig: The significance of species; 5 Performance Standards: How big is your guinea pig's house?; 6 Centaurs and Science: The professionalization of laboratory animal care and use; 7 The problem of pain; 8 The animal advocates; 9 Death by decapitation: A case study; 10 Dog walkers and monkey psychiatrists; 11 A look to the future.

First Edition. 300 pages. 20 halftones. Hardback. Suitable for a general audience, animal protectionists, veterinarians and scientists. A review of this book is available in Laboratory Animals, April 2005, Volume 39, Number 2, page 252.

ISBN: 9780195161960

Price: £36.99

Larry Carbone has also written The Hidden Lives of Lab Animals.