Kennneth Shapiro (1993) Scientist-animal Bond: Better Late Than Never
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Psycoloquy 4(38): Scientist-animal Bond: Better Late Than Never
SCIENTIST-ANIMAL BOND: BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
Book Review of Davis & Balfour on Human Animal Bond
Kennneth Shapiro
Executive Director
Psychologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
PO Box 1297
Washington Grove MD 20880
kshapiro@orlith.bates.edu
Abstract
Davis & Balfour (1992) appears to be a long awaited
extended brief against vestiges of the ideal that individual
investigators are neutral entities, divorced from any relation with
their object of study. We must give up the strategy of
understanding ourselves through the study of nonhuman animals as
models of us. We now understand that animals are individuals
embedded in interspecies social structures that include the
investigator. I believe that adopting this ideal will result in a
more veridical and useful understanding of animals and human-animal
relations. Its adoption will also diminish the suffering and waste
of lives of laboratory animals.
Keywords
Human-animal bond, human-animal interactions,
relationships, scientist-animal interactions, animal psychology,
behavioral research, attachment, human-nonhuman relationships,
behavioral arousal, rhesus monkeys, pongid pedagogy, ape
cognition, automated avoidance, pseudohabitutation.
References
- Davis, H. (1993) Precis of "The Inevitable Bond" (Davis & Balfour 1992) PSYCOLOQUY 4(12) human-animal-bond.1.davis
- Davis, H. & Balfour, D. (1992) (eds) The Inevitable Bond. Cambridge University Press