Science, Culture, and Care in Laboratory Animal Research: Interdisciplinary perspectives on the history and future of the 3Rs
Davies, GF; Greenhough, B; Hobson-West, P; et al.Kirk, R
Date: 13 February 2018
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Science, Technology, and Human Values
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SAGE Publications for Society for Social Studies of Science
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The need to refine, replace and reduce the use of animals in laboratories—the 3Rs concept” —strongly influences discussion and regulation of this contested area of technoscience. This special issue looks back to the origins of the 3Rs concept through five papers that explore how it is enacted and challenged in practice, and that develop ...
The need to refine, replace and reduce the use of animals in laboratories—the 3Rs concept” —strongly influences discussion and regulation of this contested area of technoscience. This special issue looks back to the origins of the 3Rs concept through five papers that explore how it is enacted and challenged in practice, and that develop critical considerations about its future. Three themes connect the papers in this special issue. These are (1) the multiplicity of roles enacted by those who use and care for animals in research; (2) the distribution of “feelings that matter” across species and spaces of laboratory animal practice; (3) the growing importance of “cultures of care” in animal research.
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