Who - Or What - Are the Rats (and Mice) in the Laboratory

Society and Animals

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 207-224

  Birke, Lynda ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BREEDING; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; HISTORY; HUMAN; LABORATORY; LITERATURE; MOUSE; PERSONNEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC OPINION; RAT; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; BREEDING; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LABORATORY ANIMAL SCIENCE; METAPHOR; MICE; PUBLIC OPINION; RATS; RESEARCH PERSONNEL;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA; MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 0347659256     PISSN: 10631119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853003322773023     Document Type: Review

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