Animal Ethos

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.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Moral Entanglements inExperimental Animal ScienceAccessing Animal ScienceEveryday Morality in Laboratory PracticeThe Boundaries of Interspecies EncountersThe Parameters of Ethnographic Engagementpart i: intimacy1. The Sentimental Structure of Laboratory LifeAnimal Welfare and Species PreferenceModeling Human-Animal IntimacyThe Intimacy of Laboratory EncountersAffective PoliticsConclusion: Sentimental Values2. Why Do Monkeys Watch TV?A Monkey’s History of Visual MediaPrimetime for PrimatesMacaque Care in Practice: Welfare as DomesticationCodapart ii: sacrifice: an interlude3. The Lives and Deaths of Laboratory AnimalsAnimal ErasuresBeyond the Trope of SacrificeManaged Suffering and Humane CareReimagining Moral Frameworks of CareConclusion: The Limitations of Humane Deathpart iii: exceptionalism4. Science and SalvationThe Politics of Animal SufferingSpecialized Practices of Animal WelfareEclectic Forms of Animal ExceptionalismConclusion: Totemic Creatures5. The Animal CommonsThe Ethos of SharingUncommon CreaturesThe Animal CommonsConclusion: Other Animals’ FatesConclusion: The Other AnimalNotesReferencesIndex

"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."