Contributors

1 The Ethics of Animal Research: An Overview of the Debate
Jeremy R. Garrett
Research Associate at the Children’s Mercy Bioethics Center at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri–Kansas City.
I Animal Research: Ethical and Scientific Starting Points

2 Ethics and Animal Research
University Distinguished Professor, Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Animal Sciences, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, University Bioethicist, all at Colorado State University.
3 The Evolutionary Basis for Animal Research
Stephen P. Schiffer
Diplomate, ACVIM (Internal Medicine) and ACLAM, and Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology at Georgetown University Medical Center.
II Bringing Moral Theory to Bear on Animal Research

4 Defending Animal Research: An International Perspective

Leon Jaworski Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Director of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, and Distinguished Service Professor at Baylor College of Medicine. Also the Andrew Mellow Professor of Humanities in the Department of Philosophy at Rice University.
5 Animal Experimentation, Marginal Cases, and the Significance of Suffering
Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
6 Lives in the Balance: Utilitarianism and Animal Research
Adjunct Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
7 Empty Cages: Animal Rights and Vivisection
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at North Carolina State University.
8 Virtue, Vice, and Vivisection
Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Indiana.
9 Contractarianism, Animals, and Risk
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami.
III The Ethics of Animal Research in the New Era of Biotechnology  

10 Ethical Issues Concerning Transgenic Animals in Biomedical Research

Bioethicist and Chair of the Institutional Review Board at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences–National Institutes of Health in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
11 Casuistry and the Moral Continuum: Evaluating Animal Biotechnology
Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Medical Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Associate Director of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics.
IV Making Progress in the Debate: Alternative Paths Forward  

12 Debating the Value of Animal Research
Chief Executive Officer of Humane Society International and Chief Scientific Officer of the Humane Society of the United States.
13 The Commonsense Case against Animal Experimentation

Professor of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University.
14 Rational Engagement, Emotional Response, and the Prospects for Moral Progress in Animal Use “Debates”

Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion, and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health and Preventative Medicine in the School of Medicine at Morehouse College. Also is Adjunct Professor of Animal Studies for the Humane Society University.
15 Animal Rights Advocacy and Modern Medicine: The Charge of Hypocrisy
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at North Carolina State University.
16 We’re All Animals: A Feminist Treatment of the Moral Limits of Nonhuman Animal Research

Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Applied and Professional Ethics at California State University, Sacramento.