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Suggested Further Readings
Frey, R.G., Interests and Rights: The Case against Animals (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980).
Frey, R.G., Rights, Killing, and Suffering: Moral Vegetarianism and Applied Ethics (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1983).
Russell, M. S., and R. L. Burch, The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique (London: Methuen, 1959).
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R. G. Frey is professor of philosophy at Bowling Green State University and a senior research fellow at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University. He has written numerous articles and books in moral and political philosophy, eighteenth-century British moral philosophy, and applied ethics. Most recently, he is the coauthor of Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide (with Gerald Dworkin and Sissela Bok, 1998). This article originally appeared in Why Animal Experimentation Matters: The Use of Animals in Medical Research (Transaction, 2001).
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Frey, R.G. Justifying animal experimentation. Soc 39, 37–47 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-002-1003-7
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