At the Library

For more information on both sides of the animal research debate, the following sources may be helpful.  All the resources listed should be available at a large community or university library.

Catalog of Subject Headings

• Animal Experimentation
• Animal Rights
• Animals, Care of
• Animals, Exploitation
• Animals, Treatment of
• Beauty and Cosmetics
• Bioethics
• Biotechnology
• Cosmetics Testing
• Diseases – Animal Models
• Dissection
• Laboratory Animals
• Medical Research
• Vivisection

Call Number Areas

• HV 4915
• QH 332
• QL51
• RB 125
• SF406

Magazine/Periodical Index

• Animal Agenda
• Comparative Medicine
• PETA News

Selected Book Titles

• Alternatives to Animal Use in Research, Testing, and Education. QL51.2.U6A48
• Animal Factories. SF51.M37
• Animal Rights and Human Obligations, 2nd Ed. HV4711.A56
• Animal Rights: Opposing Viewpoints. HV4711.A58
• Animal Smugglers and Other Wildlife Trades. QL82.N53
• Contribution of Laboratory Animal Science to the Welfare of Man and Animals: Past, Present, and Future. QL83.I.36
• In the Company of Animals. SF411.5.S47
• Laboratory Animal Husbandry: Ethnology, Welfare and Experimental Valuables. SF406.F69
• Rights, Killing and Suffering. TX392.F85.
• Scientific Perspectives on Animal Welfare. HV4704.S34

Ethical and Philosophic Aspects

• Beauchamp, TL. The moral standing of animals in medical research. Law Med Health Care 1992 Spring-Summer; 20(1-2): 7-16
• DeGrazia D. The moral status of animals and their use in research: a philosophical review. Kennedy Inst. Ethics J 1991 Mar; 1(1): 48-70.
• Gluck JP, Kubacki SR. Animals in biomedical research: the undermining effect of eh rhetoric of the besieged. Ethics Behav. 1991; 1(3): 157-73.
• Matfield M. Animal research within an ethical framework. ATLA 1992 Apr; 20(2): 334-7.
• Animal Experiments: the great debate. New Scientist 1992. Apr 4 (134(1815):25 and others

Animal Rights

• Anderson JH. Animal rights and research: common sense must prevail. Radiology 1992 Sep; 1184 (3) 647-51
• Caldwell Jr. Patients’ rights versus animal rights (editorial). J. Fla Med Assoc 1992 Jul; 79(7): 439-40
• Goodwin FK. Animal rights: medical research and product testing: is this a "hang together or together we hang" issue? Contemp Top Lab Anim Sci 1992 Jan; 31(1): 6-11
• Smith SZ. Animal rights and experimental medicine (editorial) J Ky Med Assoc 1992 Aug: 90(8):381

Replacement, Reduction, Refinement

• Balls M. The replacement of animal testing: ethical issues and practical realities. Int. J Cosmet Sci 1991 Feb; 13 (1) 23-8
• Bruner LH. Alternatives to the use of animals in household product and cosmetic testing. J Am Vet Med Assoc 1992 March 1;2000 (5): 669-73
• DeLuca Am, Kranda KC. Environmental enrichment in a large animal facility. Lab Anim (New York) Jan:21(1): 38-44
• Spinelli JS. Preventing suffering in laboratory animals. Scanned J Lab Anim SCI 1991; 18(4):159-64
• Whitney RA Jr. Research and development to enhance laboratory animal welfare. J Am Vet Med Assoc 1992 Mar 1; 200(5):663-6