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The Animal Research War

by P. Michael Conn, James V. Parker

Published 2008208 pagesISBN 978-0-2306-0014-0

Documents the last 20 years of the animal rights assault on biomedical research. This book provides information about animal rights philosophy, tactics, and actions, along with animal research purposes, methods, and triumphs. The authors identify grave dangers posed by the animal rights movement. Unless ordinary citizens understand its nature and unless the volume of violence is turned down, the movement may slowly but effectively shut off the pipeline of medical discovery. They describe the extensive federal regulation of research and the lengths taken to minimize animal pain and suffering.

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Nonfiction, Philosophy. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Nonfiction · Philosophy

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Dark tone · Urgent pace

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Reading lengthA shorter read208 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 2008
Primary categoryNonfictionAlso cataloged under Philosophy
ISBN-13
978-0-2306-0014-0
Language
English
Edition record
OL10194684M
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Works well for a focused weekend or a few concentrated sittings.

Begin with its place in Nonfiction, then notice where the book resists that label.

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Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. Whose perspective organizes the story, and whose perspective remains outside it?
  2. Which sources or lived experiences carry the author’s central argument?
  3. How does the book change the way you understand its larger subject?

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