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Animal-centric Care and Management : Enhancing Refinement in Biomedical Research by Dorte Bratbo Sørensen, Sylvie Cloutier, Brianna N. Gaskill is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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The concept of the 3Rs (Refinement, Reduction and Replacement) has been used as a framework for improving the welfare of laboratory animals for the last half century. By establishing an animal-centric view on housing and management, Animal-centric Care and Management: Enhancing Refinement in Biomedical Research takes Russell and Burch's definition of Refinement as "elimination of inhumanities" and goes further. Rather than fitting animals into experimental conditions, it encourages readers to adjust conditions to better meet the behavioral, emotional, physical, and physiological needs and preferences of the animals. The team of expert authors, from the fields of laboratory animal science, ethology, biology as well as animal training, provide ideas for creating housing conditions and handling procedures that induce, to the best of current abilities and knowledge, a long-term positive state of mind in the animals under our care. This book is written for animal caretakers, animal health technicians, researchers, animal facility managers, laboratory animal veterinarians, and anyone who engages in work with living experimental animals or is interested in the continuous improvement of la

Author

Dorte Bratbo Sørensen, Sylvie Cloutier, Brianna N. Gaskill

Publisher

CRC Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780429602054