Justifying animal experimentation

Abstract

R. G. Frey is professor of philosophy at Bowling Green State University and a senior research fellow at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University. He has written numerous articles and books in moral and political philosophy, eighteenth-century British moral philosophy, and applied ethics. Most recently, he is the coauthor of Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide (with Gerald Dworkin and Sissela Bok, 1998). This article originally appeared in Why Animal Experimentation Matters: The Use of Animals in Medical Research (Transaction, 2001).