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      Oakland, California

      © 2019 by The Regents of the University of California

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Sharp, Lesley Alexandra, author.

      Title: Animal ethos : the morality of human-animal encounters in experimental lab science / Lesley A. Sharp.

      Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references and index. |

      Identifiers: LCCN 2018014111 (print) | LCCN 2018015470 (ebook) | ISBN 9780520971059 (ebook) | ISBN 9780520299245 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780520299252 (pbk. : alk. paper)

      Subjects: LCSH: Laboratory animals—Moral and ethical aspects. | Human-animal relationships—Moral and ethical aspects. | Animal welfare—Moral and ethical aspects.

      Classification: LCC QL55 (ebook) | LCC QL55.s532 2019 (print) | DDC 174.2/8—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018014111

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       In loving memory of my wonderful brother

       Erik Rodman Sharp, E#

      — A Great Tree of a Man —

      December 5, 1958–February6 , 2016

      Checkmate

      Contents

       List of Illustrations

       Acknowledgments

       Introduction: Moral Entanglements in Experimental Animal Science

       Accessing Animal Science

       Everyday Morality in Laboratory Practice

       The Boundaries of Interspecies Encounters

       The Parameters of Ethnographic Engagement

       PART I: INTIMACY

      1. The Sentimental Structure of Laboratory Life

       Animal Welfare and Species Preference

       Modeling Human-Animal Intimacy

       The Intimacy of Laboratory Encounters

       Affective Politics

       Conclusion: Sentimental Values

      2. Why Do Monkeys Watch TV?

       A Monkey’s History of Visual Media

       Primetime for Primates

       Macaque Care in Practice: Welfare as Domestication

       Coda

       PART II: SACRIFICE: AN INTERLUDE

      3. The Lives and Deaths of Laboratory Animals

       Animal Erasures

       Beyond the Trope of Sacrifice

       Managed Suffering and Humane Care

       Reimagining Moral Frameworks of Care

       Conclusion: The Limitations of Humane Death

       PART III: EXCEPTIONALISM

      4. Science and Salvation

       The Politics of Animal Suffering

       Specialized Practices of Animal Welfare

       Eclectic Forms of Animal Exceptionalism

       Conclusion: Totemic Creatures

      5. The Animal Commons

       The Ethos of Sharing

       Uncommon Creatures

       The Animal Commons

       Conclusion: Other Animals’ Fates

       Conclusion: The Other Animal

       Notes

       References

       Index

Illustrations

      1. “Hydrophobia—M. Pasteur’s Experiments,” illustration from Harper’s Weekly, 1884

      2. Monument to the Little Brown Dog, Battersea Park, London

      3. “Scene at a dog dealer’s compound, 1966,” photograph by Stan Wayman for Life

      4. “Angered by the disappearance of their family pets in Clarke County, Va., Mrs. William Mitchell and her neighbors put up signs to discourage thieves,” photograph by Stan Wayman for Life

      5. Edinburgh Zoo chimpanzees responding to “Apes as Family,” part of Rachel Mayeri’s Primate Cinema series

      6. “Who would you RAT/HER see live?” billboard produced by the Foundation for Biomedical Research

      7. “Thanks to animal research, they’ll be able to protest 20.8 years longer,” poster produced by the Foundation for Biomedical Research

      8. “Help the Horse to Save the Soldier,” World War I Blue Cross poster illustrated by Fortunino Matania

      9. Animals in War Memorial, Hyde Park, London, by artist David Backhouse

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