Lives in the balance: Utilitarianism and animal research

The Ethics of Animal Research: Exploring the Controversy

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 81-105

  Bass, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT PEMBROKE   (United States)

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