Science, Culture, and Care in Laboratory Animal Research: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the History and Future of the 3Rs

Gail Davies; Beth Greenhough; Pru Hobson-West; Robert G.W. Kirk

doi:10.1177/0162243918757034

Science, Culture, and Care in Laboratory Animal Research: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the History and Future of the 3Rs

Gail Davies, Beth Greenhough, Pru Hobson-West, Robert G.W. Kirk

Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM)

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The principles of the 3Rs—replacement, refinement, and reduction—strongly shape discussion of methods for performing more humane animal research and the regulation of this contested area of technoscience. This special issue looks back to the origins of the 3Rs principles through five papers that explore how it is enacted and challenged in practice and that develop critical considerations about its future. Three themes connect the papers in this special issue. These are (1) the multiplicity of roles enacted by those who use and care for animals in research, (2) the distribution of “feelings that matter” across species and spaces of laboratory animal practice, and (3) the growing importance of “cultures of care” in animal research.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	603-621
Number of pages	19
Journal	Science Technology and Human Values
Volume	43
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243918757034
Publication status	Published - 14 Feb 2018

Keywords

care
ethics
Haraway
laboratory animals
responsibility
sentience

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