The IACUC Handbook, Second Edition

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Since its establishment by USDA regulation in the mid-1980s, the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) has evolved as the premier instrument of animal welfare oversight within research institutions in the United States. By addressing questions and problems that often confront institutions, The IACUC Handbook, Second Edition provides accurate, succinct answers. It features comprehensive updates for all pertinent federal laws, regulations, and policies. It also contains an expanded survey of IACUC practices from institutions around the nation. With accessible information, this new edition provides a foundation for those attempting to understand and implement the many and varied responsibilities of these committees.

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Animal protocols.......2007-06-17

This is a very helpful reference for scientists who need to get animal protocols approved.

A must-have reference!.......2001-10-09

This Handbook is a must-have reference for any IACUC office. I found clear, intelligent answers to my questions about every elkement of IACUC involvement. I highly recommend this resource. It is by far the most used IACUC resource I have.

What Animals Want: Expertise and Advocacy in Laboratory Animal Welfare Policy

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Animals don't want to be hurt.
The radical middle ground on animal welfare in laboratories
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What Animals Want: Expertise and Advocacy in Laboratory Animal Welfare Policy
Larry Carbone
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ASIN: 0195161963

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Larry Carbone, a veterinarian who is in charge of the lab animal welfare assurance program at a major research university, presents this scholarly history of animal rights. Biomedical researchers, and the less fanatical among the animal rights activists will find this book reasonable, humane, and novel in its perspective. It brings a novel, sociological perspective to an area that has been addressed largely from a philosophical perspective, or from the entrenched positions of highly committed advocates of a particular position in the debate.

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Animals don't want to be hurt........2005-09-05

On its face, Larry Carnone's What Animals Want presents the thoughts and ideas of a reasonable well-intentioned compassionate veterinarian doing his best to limit the suffering experienced by animals in the laboratories at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).

Carbone seems to walk an imagined middle ground, pointing out various examples of self-serving callousness among the researchers and the industry as well as the fumbling generally ineffectual efforts of animal advocates to severely limit the harm done to animals in the name of science.

A reader will probably come away with the notion that the animals at UCSF are well served and fortunate to have Carbone as their advocate, and that someone like him is probably what animals at other labs would want if they could voice their opinions.

What Animals Want provides a limited look at the industry from the perspective of an insider. Carbone seems intellectually honest as he discusses the opinions of philosophers on both sides of the issue. These characteristics combine to make the book worth reading.

As with nearly every apology for animal research, there is however an unsavory and unmentioned dimension to Carbone's claims that the average reader cannot be expected to recognize. Carbone's tenure at UCSF encompasses a period of time, right up to the present, during which severe violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA) have come to light.

Under Carbone's watch, animal care staff have felt a need to reach out repeatedly for help from animal rights organizations, to call attention to the suffering in the labs. The USDA found that animal care staff were justifiably worried about retaliations if they called UCSF's oversight committee's attention to these problems.

During Carbone's tenure, UCSF received more citations for severe violations of the AWA than perhaps any other public facility. The details of the suffering within the labs, the poor veterinary care, and the employee fear combine to make the situation at UCSF an example of one of the most poorly run animal research institutions in the nation with regard to animal care and suffering.

But the average reader is unlikely to have read the USDA inspection reports or to have read through the approved protocols detailing what is being done to the animals, or to have seen the undercover photos from within the lab.

Taking Carbone at his word, it is indeed troubling that a facility with such a seemingly enlightened vet could be such a hellhole for animals. The implications for animals in the labs across the country with attending vets who openly disdain concern and criticism are dark and bleak.

My problem with books like Carbone's is that readers might base their opinions on a single book. In such cases, like What Animals Want, they will be largely misled and misinformed. The resulting opinions are likely to do more harm than good overall.

The radical middle ground on animal welfare in laboratories.......2004-04-22

I loved this book. I have always been sympathetic to arguments made by the animal rights community about the plight of animals in laboratories. I've also always believed that the work scientists do in those laboratories makes long, healthy, human lives possible. I've never before known what to believe about what kinds of research scientists really need to use animals for, and what kinds of welfare concerns scientists actually heed. The arguments on this topic generate lots of heat and little light.
Until this book. Carbone is a veterinarian who has made a career taking care of animals in laboratories and fighting for their welfare. He does this because he thinks scientific research is important, but he also cares deeply about the animals used by the scientists. In this book, he straddles the "radical middle" on the topic. He argues that we can figure out what animals want, and not necessarily by listening to what scientific studies of pain and distress tell us they want. I found myself writing in the margins on every page, because the arguments are interesting and thought provoking all the way through. I'd highly recommend this for anyone interested in animal rights, animal research, or medical progress.

Required Reading.......2004-04-22

Dr. Carbone's beautifully written, engaging, and balanced analysis of laboratory animal welfare policy should be required reading for anybody interested in the multitude of ethical questions that arise from the care and use of animals for human needs. It should also be required reading for anybody not interested in these important issues as they will become interested after reading just the first chapter. This book is accessible to experts as well as the lay reader.

In his book, Dr. Carbone presents a clear, focused, and succinct history of laboratory animal welfare policy and in doing so raises fascinating questions throughout the book. The book focuses on a crucial question, simple and often overlooked: how do we know what animals want? Every chapter is superb. For example, his case studies on death by decapitation, dog exercise and primate psychological well-being illustrate fascinating connections between (animal welfare) science and policy and highlight the strengths and limitations of science in helping us determine (or rather, guess) what animals want.

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Handbook of Primate Husbandry and Welfare covers all aspects of primate care and management both in the laboratory environment and in zoos. From the welfare and ethics of primate captivity through to housing and husbandry systems, environmental enrichment, nutritional requirements, breeding issues, primate diseases, and additional information on transportation and quarantine proceedings, this book provides a completely comprehensive guide to good husbandry and management of primates. Designed to be a practical field manual, the authors present the material using lists, tables and illustrations to clarify best practice.Representative species are covered - from marmosets through to macaquesOne of the first books dedicated to the care of primates in captivityWritten by authors with many years of experience working with primatesSuitable for those working with primates in either laboratories or zoos

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Responsible Conduct with Animals in Research

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Responsible Conduct with Animals in Research

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The issues raised by research in animal behavior are often different from those raised by research in molecular biology and pharmacology. Studies of animal behavior often bring scientists into close and prolonged contact with their subjects. Due to this proximity, some researchers may feel confronted with the ethics of certain practices concerning human-animal interaction, especially when many investigators have been involved. The issue becomes even more controversial due to the fact that lay people in society often identify with the emotional reactions of animals. This book addresses the particular dilemmas and issues of relevance to the field of animal behavior. Part I concerns changing research practices and rules from both the institutional and personal perspective. The author considers the transformation of patterns of acceptable use in law and within the American Psychological Association, as well as the changing perspective with which scientists may evaluate some of their past work. Part II focuses on current issues regarding animal research and how scientists make practical decisions regarding their experimental subjects. Part III explores ways of assessing the animal's well, preferably by asking the animal. Finally, part IV discusses the influences animals can exert on research practitioners, although those affected may not be aware of it, and animal activism.

The Care and Feeding of an IACUC: The Organization and Management of an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee

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The framers of the 1985 amendments to the Federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA) envisioned the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) as the linchpin--the central and cohesive element--of the laboratory animal care and use program at research, education, and testing organizations. Effective operation of this committee is essential if these organizations are to achieve full regulatory compliance, and, more importantly, retain the public's support for activities involving the use of animal subjects. In 1987, the Scientists Center for Animal Welfare, in cooperation with the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, published a compilation of presentations made at five regional workshops on effective operation of IACUCs. In the decade since this compilation was published, nearly all of the 18 consensus recommendations developed by the workshop participants and the Center's Board of Trustees have either been incorporated into the AWA regulations or have been voluntarily adopted by institutions using animals subjects. The Care and Feeding of an IACUC: The Organization and Management of an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee superbly illustrates the progress and advances the animal-using communities have made in implementing these and other improvements in their animal care and use programs. The highly qualified contributors provide twelve information-packed chapters and ten appendices that provide IACUC chairs and members with an indispensable reference. This book summarizes information critical to the effective and efficient management and operation of an IACUC, and, as such, should be made available to IACUC members and administrative officials in every institution using laboratory animals.

Lives in the Balance: The Ethics of Using Animals in Biomedical Research

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This book is the result of a three-year study undertaken by a multidisciplinary working party of the Institute of Medical Ethic (UK). The group was chaired by a moral theologian, and its members included biological and ethological scientists, toxicologists, physicians, veterinary surgeons, an
expert in alternatives to animal use, officers of animal welfare organizations, a Home Office Inspector, philosophers, and a lawyer. Coming from these different backgrounds, and holding a diversity of moral views, the members produced the agreed report as a result of detailed and rigorous
discussions. The book sets out facts about animal experiments and about animal abilities to experience pain, distress and anxiety. There is a detailed examination of the moral claims related to the benefits likely to accrue from animal research, and of strategies for weighing these benefits against
the harm caused to animals, in order to decide whether particular research projects ought or ought not to proceed. This leads to consideration of the statutory and non-statutory controls which safeguard standards in such research. The final section explores a variety of philosophical arguments about
the use of animals in research, and offers a philosophical justification for the Working Party's more practical conclusions. Written in clear, nontechnical language, this book is accessible to lay people as well as to scientists. It is the first such document to emerge from a meeting of people
with such widely differing views on this highly controversial subject, and represents a major contribution towards informing and raising the quality of contemporary debate. The book is unique in drawing together material and ideas never before found in one volume. It will interest a broad spectrum
of readers, from ethicists and animal rights advocates to scientific researchers and laboratory administrators, along with general readers concerned about this compelling issue.

Amphibious and Aquatic Vertebrates and Advanced Invertebrates (The UFAW Handbook on the Care & Management of Laboratory Animals, Vol. 2)

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Amphibious and Aquatic Vertebrates and Advanced Invertebrates (The UFAW Handbook on the Care & Management of Laboratory Animals, Vol. 2)
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Animal Alternatives, Welfare and Ethics. Developments in Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Volume 27
L. F. M. Van Zutphen , and Michael Balls
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Hardbound. The objective of this conference was to: - provide a global overview of the present status of replacement alternatives, reduction alternatives and refinement alternatives; - review the progress that has been made with respect to their implementation within the fields of biomedical research, testing and education; - promote the exchange of information on recent developments in animal alternatives; and - contribute to an ongoing dialogue between the animal protection movement, the scientific community, the regulatory authorities and industry. These objectives were fully achieved, and the results have been published in this volume.

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