An Ethical Problem
An Ethical Problem

Author: Albert Leffingwell

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-19

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13:

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"An Ethical Problem..." is a book by the late President of the American Humane Association and a Medical doctor Albert Leffingwell on the subject of scientific experimentation on both humans and animals. Taking aim at the practice of vivisection in secrecy and without legal regulation, common in the time of his writing the book, he opines that, "The position taken by the writer of this volume should be clearly understood. It is not the view known as antivivisection, so far as this means the condemnation without exception of all phases of biological investigation. There are methods of research which involve no animal suffering, and which are of scientific utility...An ethical problem exists. It concerns not the prevention of all experimentation upon animals, but rather the abolition of its cruelty, its secrecy, its abuse"

The Bureaucracy of Empathy
The Bureaucracy of Empathy

Author: Shira Shmuely

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2023-07-15

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1501770411

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The Bureaucracy of Empathy revolves around two central questions: What is pain? And how do we recognize, understand, and ameliorate the pain of nonhuman animals? Shira Shmuely investigates these ethical issues through a close and careful history of the origins, implementation, and enforcement of the 1876 Cruelty to Animals Act of Parliament, which for the first time imposed legal restrictions on animal experimentation and mandated official supervision of procedures "calculated to give pain" to animal subjects. Exploring how scientists, bureaucrats, and lawyers wrestled with the problem of animal pain and its perception, Shmuely traces in depth and detail how the Act was enforced, the medical establishment's initial resistance and then embrace of regulation, and the challenges from anti-vivisection advocates who deemed it insufficient protection against animal suffering. She shows how a "bureaucracy of empathy" emerged to support and administer the legislation, navigating incongruent interpretations of pain. This crucial moment in animal law and ethics continues to inform laws regulating the treatment of nonhuman animals in laboratories, farms, and homes around the worlds to the present.