Larry Carbone
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195161960
- eISBN:
- 9780199790067
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195161960.003.0001
- Subject:
- Biology, Animal Biology
This introductory chapter begins with a description of the goal of the book, which is to understand efforts over the past few decades to establish and maintain standards of animal welfare for ...
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This introductory chapter begins with a description of the goal of the book, which is to understand efforts over the past few decades to establish and maintain standards of animal welfare for animals, in pursuit of improved lives for future animals. Social theory and animal welfare science, and current trends in laboratory animal welfare policy are discussed.Less
This introductory chapter begins with a description of the goal of the book, which is to understand efforts over the past few decades to establish and maintain standards of animal welfare for animals, in pursuit of improved lives for future animals. Social theory and animal welfare science, and current trends in laboratory animal welfare policy are discussed.
Larry Carbone
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195161960
- eISBN:
- 9780199790067
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195161960.001.0001
- Subject:
- Biology, Animal Biology
This book presents a history of animal rights. It brings a novel, sociological perspective to an area that has been addressed largely from a philosophical perspective, or from the entrenched ...
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This book presents a history of animal rights. It brings a novel, sociological perspective to an area that has been addressed largely from a philosophical perspective, or from the entrenched positions of highly committed advocates of a particular position in the debate. This book is about the people who would speak for animals in laboratories. On the one hand, people vie to speak on animals' behalf in the policy arena, to advocate for them in a forum in which they have no direct voice. Animal protectionists are immediately obvious in this role, but so are veterinarians, other animal care professionals, and many scientists. On the other hand, speaking for animals means interpreting them, translating their animal minds into human language; it's a claim of expertise and knowledge rather than commitment and advocacy. But the two are intimately intertwined, and many of the policy debates examined in this book are about these two ways of speaking for animals. This book is offered to those who are hoping for some sort of balance that promotes animal welfare and biomedical progress, not platitudes or irrelevant rules with no real impact in animals' lives.Less
This book presents a history of animal rights. It brings a novel, sociological perspective to an area that has been addressed largely from a philosophical perspective, or from the entrenched positions of highly committed advocates of a particular position in the debate. This book is about the people who would speak for animals in laboratories. On the one hand, people vie to speak on animals' behalf in the policy arena, to advocate for them in a forum in which they have no direct voice. Animal protectionists are immediately obvious in this role, but so are veterinarians, other animal care professionals, and many scientists. On the other hand, speaking for animals means interpreting them, translating their animal minds into human language; it's a claim of expertise and knowledge rather than commitment and advocacy. But the two are intimately intertwined, and many of the policy debates examined in this book are about these two ways of speaking for animals. This book is offered to those who are hoping for some sort of balance that promotes animal welfare and biomedical progress, not platitudes or irrelevant rules with no real impact in animals' lives.
Larry Carbone
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195161960
- eISBN:
- 9780199790067
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195161960.003.0008
- Subject:
- Biology, Animal Biology
This chapter examines the interplay of expertise and advocacy in animal welfare policy-making: does expertise lead automatically to advocacy? Does advocacy require expertise? Should there be a ...
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This chapter examines the interplay of expertise and advocacy in animal welfare policy-making: does expertise lead automatically to advocacy? Does advocacy require expertise? Should there be a special advocacy or accountability role for veterinarians that goes beyond doctoring the animals? As veterinarians, protectionists, and research advocates debated these questions with the USDA regulations writers, the animals themselves and controversial questions of who knew what was best for them were often lost in the cross fire.Less
This chapter examines the interplay of expertise and advocacy in animal welfare policy-making: does expertise lead automatically to advocacy? Does advocacy require expertise? Should there be a special advocacy or accountability role for veterinarians that goes beyond doctoring the animals? As veterinarians, protectionists, and research advocates debated these questions with the USDA regulations writers, the animals themselves and controversial questions of who knew what was best for them were often lost in the cross fire.
Larry Carbone
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195161960
- eISBN:
- 9780199790067
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195161960.003.0005
- Subject:
- Biology, Animal Biology
This chapter examines debates about cage-size regulations, both for how they illustrate the standards issue and because they have caused such a prominent controversy over several decades of animal ...
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This chapter examines debates about cage-size regulations, both for how they illustrate the standards issue and because they have caused such a prominent controversy over several decades of animal care policy. Topics discussed include performance standards in animal welfare policy, defining standards in animal housing, and alternative performance standards.Less
This chapter examines debates about cage-size regulations, both for how they illustrate the standards issue and because they have caused such a prominent controversy over several decades of animal care policy. Topics discussed include performance standards in animal welfare policy, defining standards in animal housing, and alternative performance standards.
Janet M. Davis
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199733156
- eISBN:
- 9780190609030
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199733156.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century, Cultural History
This chapter investigates animal advocacy and municipal animal policy in America’s overseas empire in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War. During this period, many humane leaders were ...
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This chapter investigates animal advocacy and municipal animal policy in America’s overseas empire in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War. During this period, many humane leaders were anti-imperialists, openly condemning military expansionism. Yet they fully believed in the nation’s moral mission overseas. Working with Protestant missionaries, temperance activists, educators, and other social reformers, American animal advocates and their indigenous allies in the Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii promoted assimilative American values of benevolence, free moral agency, personal uplift, and sobriety through humane education initiatives, the Bands of Mercy, and SPCA activism overseas. Even policymakers with no direct ties to the humane movement made animal welfare legislation in the empire an essential feature of civilized governance. These policies, however, periodically clashed with culturally specific practices, such as the cockfight, a prized indigenous sport throughout the empire and a key expression of cultural nationalism and resistance to American colonial rule.Less
This chapter investigates animal advocacy and municipal animal policy in America’s overseas empire in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War. During this period, many humane leaders were anti-imperialists, openly condemning military expansionism. Yet they fully believed in the nation’s moral mission overseas. Working with Protestant missionaries, temperance activists, educators, and other social reformers, American animal advocates and their indigenous allies in the Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii promoted assimilative American values of benevolence, free moral agency, personal uplift, and sobriety through humane education initiatives, the Bands of Mercy, and SPCA activism overseas. Even policymakers with no direct ties to the humane movement made animal welfare legislation in the empire an essential feature of civilized governance. These policies, however, periodically clashed with culturally specific practices, such as the cockfight, a prized indigenous sport throughout the empire and a key expression of cultural nationalism and resistance to American colonial rule.
