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Learning from Henry Spira

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1999

ARLENE JUDITH KLOTZKO  and
PETER SINGER
ARLENE JUDITH KLOTZKO
Affiliation:
Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Medical Ethics, Edinburgh, Department of Ethics and Philosophy, Faculty of Theology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, and Oxford University Press
PETER SINGER
Affiliation:
Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash University, Clayton, Australia and Princeton University
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Abstract

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For a very long time, the scientific and animal welfare communities have faced each other across a seemingly unbridgeable divide. Each side tends to view the other in simplistic and distorted terms. Animal welfare advocates see scientists as, at worst, sadists who enjoy torturing animals, and at best, as self-interested careerists intent on building careers out of publishing more papers and getting more grants, irrespective of the cost to animals. Scientists committed to research see the animal movement as consisting of, at best, ignorant, simple-minded people awash in emotion and sensationalism, and at worst, violent and dangerous fanatics who claim to care for animals but are indifferent to human suffering.

Type
GUEST EDITORIAL
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , January 1999 , pp. 3 - 5
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press