Of Mice and Primates
Virtue Ethics and Animal Research
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 20 August 2025
- ISBN 9780190089955
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 226x152x22 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English 688
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Short description:
Moral theory has primarily approached questions in animal ethics using utilitarian and rights-based theories. When applied to ethical questions in animal research, these theories typically yield conclusions about whether, or when, such animal uses are morally permissible. Rebecca Walker here argues for an alternative approach using virtue ethics, a moral perspective with roots in ancient Greek philosophy, to consider the ethical questions that arise within the very practice of laboratory animal research. Focused on questions of how we ought to live, what it means to flourish, and how virtues and vices yield practical moral guidance, Walker's use of virtue ethics yields important new insights into animal research ethics.
MoreLong description:
The ethics of research on animals has historically been viewed through the lens of cost vs benefit, and whether animals have rights. Is the suffering that might be experienced by animals-and the violation of their rights, if they are seen to have any-worth the gain in scientific knowledge? Many experiments that have caused great animal suffering were ethically justified in this way. Rebecca Walker here argues against this paradigm, and advocates instead for a virtue ethics approach. She argues that what is missing from the traditional approach to animal research are issues of character, context, and relationships. What is problematic in much research on animals is less a violation of rights than a lack of care for the vulnerable; and that most philosophical approaches to animal research ignore the actual practice of that research. Different ethical questions thus arise when viewed through this lens, such as: does a researcher who develops relationships with her animal subjects owe them a greater duty of care? What is the moral significance of the psychological effects on the researcher of doing that research? Can, or should, a rhesus monkey, for example, used for research live a good life when it is housed in a research facility?
Of Mice and Primates addresses these and other questions by reorienting our moral concern about animal research, and offers a moral theory focused on what actually happens in research settings.
Table of Contents:
Why (not) virtue ethics?
Rights and Welfare: A Case Study
Animal Flourishing and the Lab
Friendship, Human-Animal Bonds, and Partiality in the Lab
Virtue, Vice, and the Other Animals: Compassion
Justice and Animal Research Oversight
Intellectual Virtues for Animal Science
Limitations and Further Thoughts on Moral Status
