The Costs and Benefits of Animal Experiments [Paperback]

A comprehensive review of recent scientific evidence examining the contributions of animal experimentation to human healthcare. The book also explores toxicity prediction, animal use during life and health sciences education, impacts on student attitudes toward animals, and the extent to which animals suffer in laboratories.List of Tables List of Figures List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Series Preface Introduction PART I ANIMAL COSTS Global Laboratory Animal Use Types of Laboratory Animal Use mpacts on Laboratory Animals PART II HUMAN BENEFITS Human Clinical Utility of Animal Models Human Toxicological Utility of Animal Models Factors Limiting the Human Utility of Animal Models PART III ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIS Non-Animal Research and Testing Methodologies Reduction and Refinement of Laboratory Animal Use? PART IV EDUCATIONAL ANIMAL USE AND STUDENT IMPACTS Educational Animal Use Effects of Harmful Animal Use on Students PART V CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS The Costs and Benefits of Animal Experimentation 13 Regulatory Developments and Policy Recommendations Contents Glossary References Index

The book will answer most questions about animal experimentation in basic research, in toxicology studies and in education. It does this in a very thorough but readable way. Useful summaries are included at the end of each chapter, as well as an extensive glossary and reference list. & For anyone wanting to take a serious look at animal experimentation, what animals are involved, what sort of experiments are conducted and what the outcomes are  this is an essential read. (Denise Russell, Animal Studies Journal, Vol. 2 (2), 2011)

'In The Costs and Benefits of Animal Experiments, Andrew Knight takes the debate about the utility of research on animals to a new level of scientific investigation. Instead of just listing hand-picked instances of benefits or harms produced by research on animals a procedure obviously prone to bias in tl3¦