A report of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics working party investigating the ethical issues of research involving animals.

This volume is the first to present a framework of general principles for animal research ethics together with an analysis of the principles' meaning and moral

The use of animals in research has always been surrounded by ethical controversy. This book provides an overview of the central ethical issues focusing on the i

A balanced, accessible discussion of whether and on what grounds animal research can be ethically justified. An estimated 100 million nonhuman vertebrates world

Animals are widely used in neuroscience research to explore biological mechanisms of nervous system function, to identify the genetic basis of disease states, a