Hidden Lives of Lab Animals

Larry Carbone, former Director of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Program at the University of California, San Francisco, is author of What Animals Want.

• Contents  Python: From the Zoo to the Lab, What Animals WantWoodchuck: Fashioning Animals into ModelsMarmoset: Scoring the Value of Animal ResearchDog: The Poster Pups of Animal-Research BattlesRabbit: The Whiskered Face That Launched Animal-Testing AlternativesChicken: Animal-Welfare Science for Happier Animals and Better ExperimentsChimpanzee: Richer Lives for Primates . . . and All AnimalsRat: The Pain We Don’t See Still Hurts ThemMouse: Let Lab Mice Become AnimalsFlea: The Ethics of Harming Animals for Human BenefitRhesus Monkey: The People and Politics in the Animal HouseGorilla: Back to the Zoo, Searching for a More Humane Future  AcknowledgmentsNotesWorks CitedIndex

"Larry Carbone has spent his entire career thinking about what happens to animals in research labs. As a veterinarian with specialization in lab animal medicine, he has made friends with many caged creatures: monkeys, pythons, mice, shrimp. But he also has a Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science, which gives him theoretical grounding to consider big ethical questions."