Animal Ethos
The Morality of Human-Animal Encounters in Experimental Lab Science
1st Edition
Published on 6. November 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
312 pages
978-0-520-29925-2 (ISBN)
Description
What kinds of moral challenges arise from encounters between species in laboratory science? Animal Ethos draws on ethnographic engagement with academic labs in which experimental research involving nonhuman species provokes difficult questions involving life and death, scientific progress, and other competing quandaries. Whereas much has been written on core bioethical values that inform regulated behavior in labs, Lesley A. Sharp reveals the importance of attending to lab personnel's quotidian and unscripted responses to animals. Animal Ethos exposes the rich-yet poorly understood-moral dimensions of daily lab life, where serendipitous, creative, and unorthodox responses are evidence of concerted efforts by researchers, animal technicians, veterinarians, and animal activists to transform animal laboratories into moral scientific worlds.
Reviews / Votes
"This book is crucial for anyone seeking to understand how researchers and lab technicians think about what they are doing when they work with animals fated to die at the end of their usefulness in producing data." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly * "This book will be of clear substantive interest to social science and humanities scholars of experimental science and laboratory animals, while also being of general interest to anthropologists as well as medical sociologists of emotions, invisible work as well as death and dying." * Anthropology Book Forum *More details
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
21 b-w images
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-29925-2 (9780520299252)
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Person
Lesley A. Sharp is the Barbara Chamberlain & Helen Chamberlain Josefsberg '30 Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College, Senior Research Scientist in Sociomedical Sciences at Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, and Fellow at the Center for Animals and Public Policy of the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine of Tufts University. She is the author of several books, including theThe Transplant Imaginary: Mechanical Hearts, Animal Parts, and Moral Thinking in Highly Experimental Science; and Strange Harvest: Organ Transplants, Denatured Bodies, and the Transformed Self, which won the Society for Medical Anthropology's New Millennium Book Award.
Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Moral Entanglements in
Experimental Animal Science
Accessing Animal Science
Everyday Morality in Laboratory Practice
The Boundaries of Interspecies Encounters
The Parameters of Ethnographic Engagement
part i: intimacy
1. The Sentimental Structure of Laboratory Life
Animal Welfare and Species Preference
Modeling Human-Animal Intimacy
The Intimacy of Laboratory Encounters
Affective Politics
Conclusion: Sentimental Values
2. Why Do Monkeys Watch TV?
A Monkey's History of Visual Media
Primetime for Primates
Macaque Care in Practice: Welfare as Domestication
Coda
part ii: sacrifice: an interlude
3. The Lives and Deaths of Laboratory Animals
Animal Erasures
Beyond the Trope of Sacrifice
Managed Suffering and Humane Care
Reimagining Moral Frameworks of Care
Conclusion: The Limitations of Humane Death
part iii: exceptionalism
4. Science and Salvation
The Politics of Animal Suffering
Specialized Practices of Animal Welfare
Eclectic Forms of Animal Exceptionalism
Conclusion: Totemic Creatures
5. The Animal Commons
The Ethos of Sharing
Uncommon Creatures
The Animal Commons
Conclusion: Other Animals' Fates
Conclusion: The Other Animal
Notes
References
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Moral Entanglements in
Experimental Animal Science
Accessing Animal Science
Everyday Morality in Laboratory Practice
The Boundaries of Interspecies Encounters
The Parameters of Ethnographic Engagement
part i: intimacy
1. The Sentimental Structure of Laboratory Life
Animal Welfare and Species Preference
Modeling Human-Animal Intimacy
The Intimacy of Laboratory Encounters
Affective Politics
Conclusion: Sentimental Values
2. Why Do Monkeys Watch TV?
A Monkey's History of Visual Media
Primetime for Primates
Macaque Care in Practice: Welfare as Domestication
Coda
part ii: sacrifice: an interlude
3. The Lives and Deaths of Laboratory Animals
Animal Erasures
Beyond the Trope of Sacrifice
Managed Suffering and Humane Care
Reimagining Moral Frameworks of Care
Conclusion: The Limitations of Humane Death
part iii: exceptionalism
4. Science and Salvation
The Politics of Animal Suffering
Specialized Practices of Animal Welfare
Eclectic Forms of Animal Exceptionalism
Conclusion: Totemic Creatures
5. The Animal Commons
The Ethos of Sharing
Uncommon Creatures
The Animal Commons
Conclusion: Other Animals' Fates
Conclusion: The Other Animal
Notes
References
Index