Animal experimentation and the shaping of identities
pt. 1. Introducing lab animals
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
Modeling, standardization, and transgenics
Implications - generalizing from animal models
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
Middle school : learning to dissect
Medical school : using live animals
The place of the dissected animal : cyberfrogs and meanings
5. The division of emotional labor
Coping strategies and emerging identities
6. Organizing and regulating lab work
Demarcating social boundaries
The wider framework : regulating research
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"
Managing rationality : excluding irrational others
Managing membership : whose views get to count?
Thinking harder, caring harder : who has the expertise about animals?
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?
