Volume 36, Number 1 · February 2, 1989
Unkind to Animals
By Peter Singer
Animal Liberators: Research and Morality
by Susan Sperling
University of California Press, 247 pp., $19.95
Use of Laboratory Animals in Biomedical and Behavioral Research Research; the Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council; and the Institute of Medicine
by the Committee on the Use of Laboratory Animals in Biomedical
National Academy Press, 102 pp., $11.95
Now I know something of how American Indians and Trobriand Islanders must feel. I have been a subject of 'ethnographic' research by a postdoctoral fellow in anthropology at the University of California. Not in person, admittedly, for I was not privileged to be one of the nine animal rights activists with whom Dr. Sperling had 'extended conversations' during the fieldwork phase of this study, which lasted from June to September 1984. I count myself as one of her subjects nonetheless, because she quotes me as frequently as she does any of those she did interview. (Although to establish this I had first to decipher the author's practice of dividing her index references to my book, Animal Liberation,[1] between 'Singer, P.' and a hitherto unknown alter ego, 'Singer, J.')
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