The Silver Spring monkey controversy: changing cultures of care in twentieth-century laboratory animal research

In September 1981 police raided the Institute for Behavioral Research (Silver Spring, Maryland, USA) seizing a number of macaque monkeys in response to accusations of animal cruelty against the neuroscientist Edward Taub. Over the following decade a volatile battle was fought as Taub, the National I...

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Main Author: Kirk Robert G. W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2019-12-01
Series:HoST
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/host-2019-0012