Dissertation Research: The Evolving Role of the Laboratory Animal Veterinarian

9411547 Provine/Carbone本论文项目将提供支持的实验室动物兽医的不断发展的作用的采访和档案研究。 这项研究将由康奈尔大学动物资源研究中心的兽医工作人员进行，以完成科学和技术研究博士学位。 20世纪80年代，当动物权利团体的压力越来越大时，美国国会大幅增加了对动物研究的监管，从而赋予了监督研究动物福利的实验室动物兽医权力。 这些受雇于研究机构的兽医现在承担着巨大的责任。 本研究的主要目的是发展一个历史的理解不断演变的定义，实验室动物兽医，并检查专业和道德的困难，内在的协调竞争模式的兽医应该是什么。 研究人员将遵循政府文件和科学和哲学文献的审查与科学家，动物保护主义者和兽医谁试图塑造研究兽医的法律的作用采访。 分析将提供洞察科学家的价值观和社会的价值观之间的复杂的相互作用，对我们的理解不断变化的背景下，非人类动物的性质。 ***

9411547 Provine/Carbone This dissertation project will provide support for interviews and archival research on the evolving role of the laboratory animal veterinarian. The research will be undertaken by the staff veterinarian for Cornell University's Center for Research Animal Resources, towards completion of the PhD degree in Science and Technology Studies. When pressures mounted from the animal rights community during the 1980s, the U.S. Congress increased its regulation of animal-based research dramatically, thus empowering the laboratory animal veterinarians who oversee the welfare of research animals. These veterinarians, employed by research institutions, now have enormous responsibility. The central aims of this research are to develop a historical understanding of the evolving definition of laboratory animal veterinarian and to examine professional and moral difficulties inherent in reconciling competing models of what the veterinarian should be. The researcher will follow review of government documents and scientific and philosophical literature with interviews with the scientists, animal protectionists and veterinarians who have tried to shape the legal role of research veterinarians. The analysis will provide insight into the complex interactions between scientists' values and society's values, against the changing backdrop of our understanding of the nature of non-human animals. ***