Animal EthosPub Date : 2019-12-31DOI: 10.1525/9780520971059-006
{"title":"3. The Lives and Deaths of Laboratory Animals","authors":"","doi":"10.1525/9780520971059-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520971059-006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":290980,"journal":{"name":"Animal Ethos","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130927687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Animal EthosPub Date : 2018-11-06DOI: 10.1525/california/9780520299245.003.0002
L. Sharp
{"title":"The Sentimental Structure of Laboratory Life","authors":"L. Sharp","doi":"10.1525/california/9780520299245.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520299245.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 1 is the first of two in part 1 of the book, “Intimacy.” A premise of this chapter is that intimate human-animal encounters are an inescapable, everyday aspect of lab work and that this intimacy engenders affective responses. Whereas regulatory apparati and associated research practices necessitate that animals be quantified in a host of ways (most evident in numbering and logging systems), still other practices abound that evidence how lab personnel understand animals as more than mere data points or objects of research. The underlying “sentimental structures” (a phrase long used in anthropology to reference kindredness) offer rich evidence of an affective, moral registry at work in labs. Further, different species engender different sorts of responses among lab professionals, a reality I describe as species preference, where iconic species of science (e.g., lab rats and mice, macaques) evidence this. The more specifically charismatic qualities of chimpanzees and dogs are especially powerful in this way, where affective responses can vary not only from one individual lab worker to another, but also within or across a lab’s labor hierarchy, consisting of researchers, animal technicians (also known as “caretakers”), and veterinarians.","PeriodicalId":290980,"journal":{"name":"Animal Ethos","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130615036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Animal EthosPub Date : 2018-11-06DOI: 10.1525/CALIFORNIA/9780520299245.003.0004
L. Sharp
{"title":"Science and Salvation","authors":"L. Sharp","doi":"10.1525/CALIFORNIA/9780520299245.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/CALIFORNIA/9780520299245.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 4 is the first of two chapters in the book’s final part, “Exceptionalism.” A widespread public (and activist) assumption is that lab animals are systematically objectified and regarded as replaceable and, thus, expendable. Whereas rescue work looms large in the public imagination as the purview of activists, my data demonstrate that rescue work is a regular and even sanctioned lab practice. I consider how lab personnel understand and describe rescue work, employing such alternative terms as adoption and rehoming as a means to mark them as morally distinct from what activists do. Equally important are eclectic memorial projects that are pervasive within laboratory space. These unorthodox practices evidence the charismatic qualities of individual creatures, and how memory work might facilitate human redemption. Such practices are especially common (though not exclusive to) animal technicians or caretakers.","PeriodicalId":290980,"journal":{"name":"Animal Ethos","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116324133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}