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Animal Experimentation
  • A Guide to the Issues
  • 3rd edition
  • Vaughan Monamy
  • Published online:
    16 March 2017
    Print publication:
    17 February 2017
  • An essential book for all those who conduct animal-based research or are involved in education and training, as well as regulators, supporters, and opponents alike. This fully updated third edition includes discussion of genetically altered animals and associated welfare and ethical issues that surround the breeding programmes in animal based research. The book discusses the origins of vivisection, the advances in human and non-human welfare made possible by animal experimentation, moral objections, and alternatives to the use of animals in research. It also examines the regulatory umbrella under which experiments are conducted in Europe, USA and Australasia. The author highlights the future responsibilities of researchers who will be working with animals, and offers practical advice on experimental design, literature search, consultation with colleagues, and the importance of the ongoing search for alternatives.

Animal Experimentation
  • A Guide to the Issues
  • 2nd edition
  • Vaughan Monamy
  • Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    22 January 2009
  • Animal Experimentation is an important book for all those involved in the conduct, teaching, learning, regulation, support or critique of animal-based research. Whilst maintaining the clarity of style that made the first edition so popular, this second edition has been updated to include discussion of genetically modified organisms and associated welfare and ethical issues that surround the breeding programs in such research. It also discusses the origins of vivisection, advances in human and non-human welfare made possible by animal experimentation, principle moral objections to the use of research animals, alternatives to the use of animals in research, and the regulatory umbrella under which experiments are conducted in Europe, USA and Australasia. In addition, the book highlights the future responsibilities of students who will be working with animals, and offers practical advice on experimental design, literature search, consultation with colleagues, and the importance of the on-going search for alternatives.

  • 6 - The regulation of experiments

  • Vaughan Monamy
  • Book:
    Animal Experimentation
    Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    22 January 2009, pp 64-73

  • Summary

    We all want to be healthy and safe. We want to have the means to prevent or cure the health problems and diseases that currently reduce the quality of life of millions of people around the world and condemn many to an early death … At the same time most of us would prefer animals not to be used to achieve these outcomes, particularly if they might be caused pain or harm in the process. The policy-maker's job is to find a way of balancing and satisfying each of these conflicting societal aspirations in the public interest, as far as current science and technologies allow.

    Walsh and Richmond (2005, p. 85)

    LAWS GOVERNING HUMANE USE OF LABORATORY ANIMALS

    As already noted, animals are integral to many areas of modern science, education and product testing. Western societies insist on the thorough regulation of all such uses and this has been done, albeit in different ways in different countries, with considerable success (World Health Organization 1985). That does not mean of course that there is not room for improvement. Some countries lag behind other nations that have more progressive legislation that accords protection to a wider range of species (e.g. Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, UK and the USA).

    While it is beyond the scope of this book to review all statutes in all nations that have laboratory animal welfare legislation, it is worthwhile to contrast three regulatory approaches: the British centralised government inspectorate system, the US self-regulation system, and the enforced self-regulation system of Australia and New Zealand that establishes Animal Ethics Committees (AECs).

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