Sacrifice: How Scientific Experiments Transform Animals and People

by Lynda Birke, Mike Michael (Editor), Arnold Arluke

The Sacrifice provides a uniquely detailed account of the sociological context of animal experimentation. The authors provide a rich analysis of complex and changing role of the laboratory animal in the political and scientific culture of the United States and the United Kingdom. By understanding the interplay of the groups, the authors view the experimental controversy as an ongoing and constantly recreated set of social processes, not just a problem of morality.

234 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2006

About the author

LYNDA BIRKE is a feminist biologist who has written extensively on the connections between feminism and science. She is the co-founder of two feminist groups and author of several bookps including Women, Feminism and Biology: The Feminist Challenge; Feminism, Animals and Science: The Naming of the Shrew; Rethinking Biology: Respect for Life and the Creation of Knowledge (co-edited with Ruth Hubbard);and, Common Science? Women, Science and Knowledge (with Jean Barr).

Reviews

[Susan · Rating 3 out of 5]

good, interesting, somewhat dated