The Ethics of Animal Research: Exploring the Controversy

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments This book would not be possible without the support of many people and organizations. I’d like to thank each of the authors for such outstanding contributions, as well as the various editors at the MIT Press who’ve had a hand in shaping the project and guiding it to fruition. When I first began the project, I did so with the hope that it would improve the quality of thinking and dialog regarding the ethics of animal research. Thanks to the hard work and exceptional talents of the fourteen contributors to this book, this goal has been largely realized. Clay Morgan of the MIT Press, and Art Caplan and Glenn McGee, editors of the Basic Bioethics series, were a pleasure to work with, and their feedback improved both the structure and the content of the volume. Four of the articles were previously published in professional journals and I’m grateful for permission to reprint them here. These include: Brody, Baruch A. 2001. Defending animal research: An international perspective . In Why Animal Experimentation Matters: The Use of Animals in Medical Research, ed. E. F. Paul and J. Paul, 131–148. New Brunswick , NJ: Transaction Publishers and the Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation. Fiester, Autumn. 2007. Casuistry and the moral continuum: Evaluating animal biotechnology. Politics and the Life Sciences 25 (1–2): 15–22. Regan, Tom. 2002. Empty cages: Animal rights and vivisection. In Animal Experimentation: Good or Bad?, ed. T. Gilland, 19–36. London: Hodder & Stoughton. Rollin, Bernard E. 2007. Animal research: A moral science. EMBO Reports 8 (6): 521–525. Reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd. I’d also like to recognize the various departments and centers that have supported my work on this volume. I began this project while I was a x Acknowledgments philosophy graduate student at Rice University, continued at California State University, Sacramento, and then concluded it in my current position as research associate at the Children’s Mercy Bioethics Center at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. I sincerely appreciate the many colleagues and mentors who have offered their advice and assistance in various ways. I want to acknowledge the generous financial support of the Animals and Society Institute, which awarded me a summer research fellowship to complete some of the work on the volume. The five weeks spent with the mentors and fellows gathered by ASI were thoroughly enjoyable and contributed significantly to the development of this book. The project also received financial support from the Center for Practical and Professional Ethics at California State University, Sacramento, which funded an ethics intern, Kara Kehoe, to complete some of the copy editing of the manuscript. I reserve my final thanks for my wife, Leslie Ann McNolty. Leslie assisted with typing, copyediting, and indexing, offered helpful feedback on the introduction, and was a constant source of encouragement and support. Most important, she gave me two beautiful children, Thomas and Vivienne, during the lifespan of this project. This book and my life are much better because of her. ...