Merlino's Animal Rights Links

• Animal Welfare Act and Regulations
• AAVS: Animal Experimentation: Central Moral and Scientific Issues
• Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW)
• Animal Research is Wasteful and Misleading (Barnard & Kaufman, 1997)
• Benefits and Ethics of Animal Research (Scientific American forum)
• Unscientific American: Animal Rights or Wrongs (Botting & Morrison, 1998)
• 5 Freedoms
• CCAC: 5 Categories of Invasiveness in Animal Experiments (Humane Principles)
• Univ. of Alberta: Category of Invasiveness form
• Acceptable Purposes for Animal Use in Experiments
• Literature on the assessment of animal welfare and animal distress
• Assessing Suffering
• Humane Society (US): Animal Research Issues
• The Three R's (Russell & Birch, 1959-92)
• 3Rsearch.html
• 3 Humane Alternative Principles developed by Concerned Scientists
• Johns Hopkins Alternatives to Animal Testing on the Web site
• Hinman's Moral Status of Animals site
• Moral Agents and Moral Patients
• CCAC: Ethics of Animal Investigation
• Canadian Guide to the Care and Use of Experimental Animals
• NRC: Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (1996)
• Ethics Review of Research Involving Animals
• NIH: Ethical Conduct
• Ch. 2: Alternative Methodologies
• The New Scientist site about animal research
• Tufts Center for Animals and Public Policy
• UC Davis Center for Animal Alternatives
• animal rights: about.com search results
• Tom Regan: The Case for Animal Rights
• Animal Rights Resource Site
• Philosophers on the Side of the Animals
• PETA
• Merlino on Whether Using Animals for Human Research Purposes is Ever Acceptable

• The Three Rs: Way Forward
• The 3r's
• In Vitro Methods in Toxicology
• The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique
• Reducing the Use of Laboratory Animals in Biomedical Research: Problems and Possible Solutions
• ALTEX, 2000, Volume 1

   

On-Line Articles on Animal Well-Being

• Hugh LaFollette and Niall Shanks, "The Origin of Speciesism," Philosophy (1996), pp. 41-60.
• Hugh LaFollette and Niall Shanks, "Util-izing Animals," Journal of Applied Philosophy (1995) pp. 13-25.
• Hugh LaFollette and Niall Shanks, "Two Models of Models in Biomedical Research," Philosophical Quarterly (1995) pp. 141-60.
• Hugh LaFollette and Niall Shanks, "Animal Experimentation: the Legacy of Claude Bernard," International Studies in the Philosophy of Science (1994) pp. 195-210.
• Essays on Animal Rights by Gary Francione, Rutgers Animal Rights Law Center, including "Animal Rights and Animal Welfare," Rutgers Law Review (1996).
• Peter Singer, "Do Animals Feel Pain?"
• Robert Nozick, "Moral Constraints and Animals"
• Donald Graft, "Against Strong Speciesism"
• Donald VanDeVeer, "Interspecific Justice and Intrinsic Value" Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy, Spring, 1995.
• http://articles.animalconcerns.org/ar-voices/archive/