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National Research Council, Recognition and Alleviation of Pain and Distress in Laboratory Animals (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1992).
National Research Council, The Psychological Well-Being of Nonhuman Primates (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1998).
Rollin, Bernard E., Animal Rights and Human Morality, 2d ed., (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1992).
Rollin, Bernard E., Farm Animal Welfare: Social, Bioethical, and Research Issues (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1995).
Tannenbaum, Jerrold, “Ethics and Animal Welfare: The Inextricable Connection,” Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 198, no. 8 (1991): 1360–76.
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Jerrold Tannenbaum is professor of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California, Davis. He is also a member of the Bioethics Program at the University of California at Davis School of Medicine. He is the author of Veterinary Ethics (2d ed., 1995), the first major comprehensive study of that field. His research interests include veterinary policy studies, animal ethics and law, animal research ethics, and the study of the bonds between humans and animals. He is also the founder (and past president) of the Society for Veterinary Medical Ethics. This article originally appeared in Why Animal Experimentation Matters: The Use of Animals in Medical Research (Transaction, 2001).
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Tannenbaum, J. The paradigm shift toward animal happiness. Soc 39, 24–36 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-002-1002-8
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