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HARVARD LAW SCHOOL
Cruel Experiments on Monkeys Should Stop at Harvard Medical School
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS
Letter from scientists to PNAS requesting retraction of Livingstone's publication
THE
SCIENCE.
Decades of research have already revealed that maternal separation causes suffering and is harmful to nonhuman primates, and that we have a moral duty to protect them from experimental exploitation.
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY
Maternal separation disrupts the integrity of the intestinal microflora in infant rhesus monkeys
ETHICS & POLITICS
Ethical Implications of Animal Personhood and the Role for Science
THEORETICAL MEDICINE & BIOETHICS
Harms and deprivation of benefits for nonhuman primates in research
JOURNAL OF TRAUMA & DISSOCIATION
Parallels in sources of trauma, pain, distress, and suffering in humans and nonhuman animals
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF ANIMAL ETHICS
Animal Pain and Welfare: Can Pain Sometimes Be Worse for Them than for Us?
“As a scientist, I question what we are learning that we couldn’t learn in another way. As a human, I’m horrified.”
Catherine Hobaiter - Primatologist, University of St. Andrews