Simple Summary The present review highlights and examines the importance of animal
models in relevant topics concerning current human and animal health. Over the past five …

By foregrounding the ways that human existence is bound together with the lives of other
entities, contemporary cultural theorists have sought to move beyond an anthropocentric …

While sociologists of medicine have focused their efforts on understanding human health,
illness, and medicine, veterinary medical practice has not yet caught their attention in any …

One of the primary concerns in animal research is ensuring the welfare of laboratory
animals. Modern views on animal welfare emphasize the role of animal sentience, ie the …

The 3Rs principle of replacing, reducing and refining the use of animals in science has been
gaining widespread support in the international research community and appears in …

Simple Summary The present study aimed to assess the infrared thermal response of
laboratory rats (Rattus norvegicus) during the application of six euthanasia methods …

The principles of the 3Rs—replacement, refinement, and reduction—strongly shape
discussion of methods for performing more humane animal research and the regulation of …

Ethical and regulatory oversight of research animals is focused on vertebrates and rarely
includes invertebrates. Our aim was to undertake the first study to describe differences in …

Animals used in biological research and testing have become integrated into the trajectories
of modern biomedicine, generating increased expectations for and connections between …

With an established history of controversy in the UK, the use of animals in science continues
to generate significant socio-ethical discussion. Here, the figure of 'the public'plays a key …