Caring for the multiple and the multitude: Assembling animal welfare and enabling ethical critique

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 623-638

  Davies, Gail ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3Rs; Animal research; Animal welfare; Biotechnology; Care; Ethics; Excess; Multiplicity; Multitude; Speculative critique

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL WELFARE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ETHICS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY METHOD; MEDICINE; POLICY MAKING; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; RODENT;

EID: 84865356567     PISSN: 02637758     EISSN: 14723433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/d3211     Document Type: Article

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