Public Attitudes Toward Animal Research: Some International Comparisons

Society and Animals

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 95-113

  Pifer, Linda ^a   Shimizu, Kinya ^a   Pifer, Ralph ^a  

^a Chicago Academy of Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BELGIUM; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CANADA; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; DENMARK; ECOLOGY; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FEMALE; FRANCE; GREECE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; IRELAND; ITALY; JAPAN; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PAIN; PORTUGAL; PUBLIC OPINION; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPAIN; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

BELGIUM; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; ATTITUDE; BELGIUM; CANADA; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; DATA COLLECTION; DENMARK; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; FRANCE; GREAT BRITAIN; GREECE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNATIONALITY; IRELAND; ITALY; JAPAN; MEN; NETHERLANDS; PAIN; PORTUGAL; PUBLIC OPINION; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPAIN; UNITED STATES; WOMEN; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0028679820     PISSN: 10631119     EISSN: 15685306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853094X00126     Document Type: Article

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