Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-216) and index
Introduction -- Historical context -- Legislative context -- Animal experimentation and the shaping of identities -- pt. 1. Introducing lab animals -- 1. Enter the lab animal -- Who, or what, is "the lab animal?" -- Standardization or diversity? -- The standardized laboratory rodent : crating identities -- 2. The animal model and scientific practice -- Standardizing space : the placelessness of laboratories -- Producing knowledge -- Standardization and replicability -- Animal models? -- Modeling, standardization, and transgenics -- Implications - generalizing from animal models -- Lab animal identities -- 3. Representing animals : unsung heroes and partners in research -- The lab animal in scientific articles -- Animals in laboratory advertisements -- Emerging identities and animal representations -- pt. 2. Acquiring identities -- 4. Becoming a biologist -- Middle school : learning to dissect -- Medical school : using live animals -- The place of the dissected animal : cyberfrogs and meanings -- Dissecting identities -- 5. The division of emotional labor -- Who's who in the lab -- Shared coping skills -- The technicians' burden -- Coping strategies and emerging identities -- 6. Organizing and regulating lab work -- Demarcating social boundaries -- The wider framework : regulating research -- Managing identities -- pt. 3. Confronting the public -- 7. Politics, animal rights activism and the battle for hearts and minds -- Equating rats and humans ; activists as antihuman -- Outrageous distortions : activists as dishonest -- Practicing terrorism : activists as criminal -- Strategies of defense : occupying the middle ground -- "Surely they're worth a few laboratory animals?" -- New dilemmas and research advocacy? -- 8. Rationality, stigma, and the "general public" -- Dealing with stigma -- Managing reproach -- Managing rationality : excluding irrational others -- Managing membership : whose views get to count? -- Thinking harder, caring harder : who has the expertise about animals? -- Confronting the public -- 9. Making publics, scientists and laboratory animals -- Surveying the surveys : what does the public think? -- Calculating costs and benefits -- From strain and model to hybrid and product -- Making and unmaking animals and people -- Conclusion : who or what is the laboratory animal? -- Notes -- References -- Index
