作者: Pru Hobson-West , Ashley Davies
关键词: Sociology 、 Situated 、 Certification 、 The Imaginary 、 Field (Bourdieu) 、 Epistemology 、 Context (language use) 、 Sentience 、 Environmental ethics 、 Ethnography 、 Sociology of scientific knowledge
摘要: The use of nonhuman animals as models in research and drug testing is a key route through which contemporary scientific knowledge certified. Given ethical concerns, regulation animal promotes the less "sentient" animals. This paper draws on documentary analysis legal documents qualitative interviews with Named Veterinary Surgeons others at commercial laboratory UK. Its claim that concept sentience entangled particular imaginary how general public or wider society views We call this societal sentience. Against backdrop increasing ethnographic work care encounters laboratory, helps to stress context within such take place. conclude has potential purchase beyond field, helping highlight affective dimension imaginaries their consequences. Researching critiquing sentience, we argue, may ultimately have more impact fate humans nonhumans than focusing wholly ethics situated practice.