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Brute Science:Dilemmas Animal (Philosophical Issues in Science)

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LaFollette and Shanks have shed much light on the heated animal research controversy. They argue that animal experimentation may occasional prove useful in biomedical research, but is not necessary for medical progress. In general, it is actually less helpful than other possible research approaches. Borrowing from evolutionary theory, they demonstrate that the more reliable the animal model, the more problematic it becomes ethically to experiment on it. This book challenges contemporary researchers to address the moral dilemma posed or adopt other means of investigating biomedical issues

The authors of this book present loads of facts and research from biological, philosophical, ethical, and other scientific perspectives in a completely calm and polite way. Though, at the same time, they make extremely strong and firm statements about nonhuman animal research. I found myself smiling, gasping, underlining, thinking, overwhelmingly absorbed, and so on while reading it.

This has become on of my favorite books on the use (or should I say "misuse") of animals in various industries and is definitely one of the best on the misuse of nonhuman animals in research.

I will be quoting it for many years to come, I am sure.