Описание: The National Institute of Health recently announced its plan to retire the fifty remaining chimpanzees held in national research facilities and place them in sanctuaries. This significant decision comes after a lengthy process of examination and debate about the ethics of animal research. For decades, proponents of such research have argued that the discoveries and benefits for humans far outweigh the costs of the traumatic effects on the animals; but today, even the researchers themselves have come to question the practice. John P. Gluck has been one of the scientists at the forefront of the movement to end research on primates, and in Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals he tells a vivid, heart-rending, personal story of how he became a vocal activist for animal protection.
Gluck begins by taking us inside the laboratory of Harry F. Harlow at the University of Wisconsin, where Gluck worked as a graduate student in the 1960s. Harlow's primate lab became famous for his behavioral experiments in maternal deprivation and social isolation of rhesus macaques. Though trained as a behavioral scientist, Gluck finds himself unable to overlook the intense psychological and physical damage these experiments wrought on the macaques. Gluck's sobering and moving account reveals how in this and other labs, including his own, he came to grapple with the uncomfortable justifications that many researchers were offering for their work. As his sense of conflict grows, we're right alongside him, developing a deep empathy for the often smart and always vulnerable animals used for these experiments.
At a time of unprecedented recognition of the intellectual cognition and emotional intelligence of animals, Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals is a powerful appeal for our respect and compassion for those creatures who have unwillingly dedicated their lives to science. Through the words of someone who has inflicted pain in the name of science and come to abhor it, it's important to know what has led this far to progress and where further inroads in animal research ethics are needed.
Автор: Tetsuro Matsuzawa Название: Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior ISBN: 4431094229 ISBN-13(EAN): 9784431094227 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 9781.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Publication of Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior under the editorship of Tetsuro Matsuzawa reaffirms the pervasive and creative role played by the intellectual descendants of Kinji Imanishi and Junichiro Itani in the fields of behavioral ecology, psychology, and cognitive science.
Автор: Matthew J. Ravosa; Marian Dagosto Название: Primate Origins: Adaptations and Evolution ISBN: 1489978933 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781489978936 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 40389.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book provides a novel focus on adaptive explanations for cranial and postcranial features and functional complexes, socioecological systems, life history patterns, etc. In addition to the strictly paleontological or systemic questions regarding Primate Origins, the editors concentrate on the adaptive significance of primate characteristics.
Автор: Marcus Johannes Naumer; Jochen Kaiser Название: Multisensory Object Perception in the Primate Brain ISBN: 148998206X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781489982063 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 34799.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explores mechanisms of multisensory integration of object-related information, focused on visual, auditory, and tactile sensory modalities. Covers audio-visual and visuo-tactile processing, and plasticity, offering human and nonhuman primate studies.
Автор: Jeannette P. Ward; William D. Hopkins Название: Primate Laterality ISBN: 0387979611 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780387979618 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 20896.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Consisting of research on the neural and behavioral lateralization of the brain relying heavily on animal modes, this book employs the comparative method to enhance understanding of behavior, specifically through hand use and "handedness" by drawing comparisons with studies involving primates.
Автор: William J. Jungers Название: Size and Scaling in Primate Biology ISBN: 0306415607 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780306415609 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 36570.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In addition to the formal exchange of new ideas and information among scientific experts in specific areas of scaling research, two of the major goals of this volume are an assessment of our progress toward understanding various size-related phe- nomena in primates and the identification of future prospects for continuing advances in this realm.
Автор: Wolf Krebs; Ingeborg Krebs Название: Primate Retina and Choroid ISBN: 1461390974 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781461390978 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 14673.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: . . . . . . . . . 30 Outer Plexiform Layer and Horizontal Cells .................. . . . . . . . . 142 Cells of Choroidal Connective Tissue ....................... . . . A scholarly review of the whole spectrum of research on the re tina and choroid is not feasible in a single volume.
Автор: J. Michael Plavcan; Richard F. Kay; William L. Jun Название: Reconstructing Behavior in the Primate Fossil Record ISBN: 1461355079 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781461355076 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 20962.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume brings together a series of papers that address the topic of reconstructing behavior in the primate fossil record. Consequently, inferences of behavior in extinct species have become better grounded in comparative studies of living species and are becoming increas ingly rigorous.
Автор: Elizabeth Strasser; John Fleagle; Alfred L. Rosenb Название: Primate Locomotion ISBN: 030646022X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780306460227 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 28732.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Proceedings of a Symposium held in Davis, California, March 27-28, 1995
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