Briefly Noted

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Pros and cons of laboratory-based animal research in biomedicine

• William Paton
  Man and mouse: Animals in medical research
  New York: Oxford University, 1993. Second edition.

• Jane A. Smith and Kenneth M. Boyd
  Lives in the balance: The ethics of using animal in biomedical research
  New York: Oxford University, 1991. xvi, 352 pp.

• F. Barbara Orlans
  In the name of science: Issues in responsible animal experimentation
  New York: Oxford University, 1993. ix, 297 pp. $39.95 hard.

• Gill Langley, Ed.
  Animal experimentation: The consensus changes
  New York: Chapman and Hall, 1989. xii, 268 pp. paper.

• Robert Sharpe
  The cruel deception: The use of animals in medical research
  Wellingborough, UK: Thorsons, 1988. 288 pp. paper.

Listed in order [editor's view] from pro to con. The books present a mix of sociology of medicine, philosophy of science, ethics, regulatory strategies, history of attitudes ... Note predominance of British authors and (parent company) publishers.

Scientist-animal relation

• Hank Davis & Dianne Balfour, Eds.
  The inevitable bond: Examining scientist-animal interactions
  Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1992. xi, 399 pp.

Description of "bond" that forms between scientist and animal subjects of various species, and implications for research.

• E. K. Hicks, Ed.
  Science and the human-animal relationship
  Amsterdam: SISWO, 1993. 242 pp.

Essays promoting study of the human-animal relation as an object of social scientific research.

Animals in culture and history

• Juliet Clutton-Brock
  Horse power: A history of the horse and the donkey in human societies
  Cambridge: Harvard University, 1992. 192 pp. $29.95.

Natural and social history of horse, as we shaped that species and it shaped our culture.

• Eleanora M. Woloy
  The symbol of the dog in the humane psyche: A study of the human-dog bond
  Wilmette, IL: Chiron, 1990. xiv, 88 pp.

Use of animal symbolism in Jungian psychoanalysis to understand human psychological development generally and the human experience of dogs in particular.

Post-structuralist studies of animal issues

• Steve Baker
  Picturing the beast: Animals, identity and representation.
  Manchester, UK: Manchester University, 1993. x, 242 pp.

Forms of visual representation of animals and how they shape our views of ourselves and of other animals. Suggested strategies of representation that might further an animal rights agenda.

• Keith Tester
  Animals and society: The humanity of animal rights.
  London: Routledge, 1991. vi, 218 pp. $15.95.

Historical analysis of different social constructions of "animals," keying on the concepts of human and nonhuman animal similarities and differences. Critique of contemporary animal rights philosophy and movement.

Animals as food

• Neal Barnard
  Food for life: How the four new food groups can save your life
  New York: Harmony, 1993. xviii, 334 pp. $23.00.

Implicit argument for vegetarianism through diet that avoids animal products.

• Michael W. Fox
  Superpigs and wondercorn
  New York: Lyons & Burford, 1992. ix, 209 pp. $21.95.

Genetic engineering and the biotechnology industry: their implications for the environment and animal welfare.

• Andrew Johnson
  Factory farming
  Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991. 272 pp.

Critique of intensive "livestock" agriculture, emphasizing animal and human health and environmental costs.

Environmentalism and wildlife

• Matt Cartmill
  A view to a death in the morning: Hunting and nature through history
  Cambridge: Harvard University, 1993. xvi, 331 pp. $29.95.

Critique of thesis from anthropology (Dart) and popular anthropology (Ardrey) of human beings as natural-born hunters ­ as it has been used to justify hunting on evolutionary grounds.

• Finn Lynge
  Arctic wars: Animal rights, endangered peoples
  Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1992. xiii, 118 pp.

Description of Inuit culture and critique of animal rights from perspective of indigenous rights activist.

• Carol J. Adams, Ed.
  Ecofeminism & the sacred
  New York: Continuum, 1993. xii, 340 pp. $24.95.

Contemporary efforts to integrate feminist and ecological philosophies and find common approaches and solutions to environmental and social problems.

• Lisa Mighetto
  Wild animals and American environmental ethics
  Tucson: University of Arizona, 1991. xiv, 177 pp. $17.95 paper.

Changing attitudes to wildlife since Darwin, based on analyses of American "nature writers" ­ Muir, Seton, London, Thoreau ...

• Eugene C. Hargrove, Ed.
  The animal rights/environmental ethics debate: The environmental perspective
  Albany, NY: SUNY, 1992. xxvi. 273 pp.

Attempts at conceptual reconciliation of individualistic animal rights and holistic deep ecology ethics.

Sociopolitics

• Ingrid Newkirk
  Free the animals: The untold story of the US Animal Liberation Front and its founder, "Valerie"
  Chicago: Noble Press, 1992. 372 pp. $13.95.

• Lorenz Lutherer and Margaret Simon
  Targeted: The anatomy of an animal rights attack
  Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma, 1992. xix, 170 pp.

Sympathetic and condemnatory accounts, respectively, of the tactic of laboratory rescues/break-ins. Newkirk is cofounder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals . Lutherer, a physiologist, and Simon both work at Texas Tech University, a university "targeted" by the ALF in 1989.

Books Received

• Scott Atran
  Cognitive foundations of natural history: Toward an anthropology of science
  Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1990. xii, 360 pp.

• Robert M. Baird and Stuart E. Rosenbaum
  Animal experimentation: The moral issues
  New York: Prometheus, 1991. 182 pp.

• Charles Birch, William Eaken, & Jay B. McDaniel, Eds.
  Liberating life
  N ew York: Orbis, 1990. ix, 293 pp.

• Michael W. Fox
  Inhumane society: The American way of exploiting animals
  New York: St. Martin's, 1990. xviii, 268 pp. $9.95.

• Gary L. Francione and Anna E. Charlton
  Vivisection and dissection in the classroom: A guide to conscientious objection
  Jenkintown, PA: AAVS, 1992. xiii, 136 pp. $7.97 paper.

• Robert Garner
  Animals, politics, and morality
  Manchester: Manchester University, 1993. ix. 258 pp.

• Michael B. Kapis and Shayne C. Gad, Eds.
  Non-animal techniques in biomedical and behavioral research and testing
  Boca Raton, FL: Lewis, 1993. 264 pp.

• Nel Noddings
  Caring: A feminine approach to ethics and moral education
  Berkeley: University of California, 1984. 211 pp.

• Michael H. Robinson and Lionel Tiger, Eds.
  Man & beast revisited
  Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1991. xxiii, 386 pp.

• Judith Reitman
  Stolen for profit: How the medical establishment is funding a national pet-theft conspiracy
  New York: Pharos, 1992. xiv, 258 pp. $19.95 hard.

• Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
  Shadows of forgotten ancestors: A search for who we are
  New York: Random House, 1992. xvi, 505 pp.

• Marian Schottmeijer
  Animal victims: From sanctity to sacrifice
  Toronto: University of Toronto, 1993. x, 330 pp. $18.95 paper.

• James J. Sheehan
  Boundaries of humanity: Humans, animals, machines
  Berkeley: University of California, 1991. viii. 274 pp.

• F. Wemelsfelder
  Animal boredom: Toward an empirical approach of animal subjectivity
  Utrecht: Elinkwijk, 1993. 195 pp.

• Edward O. Wilson
  The diversity of life
  Cambridge: Belknap, 1992. 424 pp.

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