A Mouse in a Cage: Rethinking Humanitarianism and the Rights of Lab Animals

＂Whenever biomedicine becomes a salve for human suffering, that form of care has relied upon the lives and deaths of laboratory animals; humanitarianism both responds to this social fact of animal suffering with compassion all the while also ingesting the use of animals for the purposes of improvements in human health＂-- Provided by publisher.

Carrie Friese is Associate Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author of Cloning Wild Life: Zoos, Captivity, and the Future of Endangered Animals.