Handbook of laboratory animal management and welfare /

Handbook of laboratory animal management and welfare /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Wolfensohn, Sarah.
Edition:	3rd ed.
Imprint:	Oxford, UK ; Ames, Iowa : Blackwell Pub., c2003.
Description:	xi, 416 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Laboratory animals -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. Animal welfare -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. Animal experimentation -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. Animal experimentation. Animal welfare. Laboratory animals. Handbooks and manuals.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5202807

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Other authors / contributors:	Lloyd, Maggie.
ISBN:	1405111593 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.

Table of Contents:

1. Education and training for the licence holder
2. The regulatory framework
3. Health, safety and security
4. Pain, stress and humane end points
5. Humane methods of killing
6. Introduction to laboratory animal husbandry
7. Anaesthesia of laboratory animals
8. Management of pain, suffering, distress and lasting harm
9. Conduct of minor procedures
10. Introduction to surgery and suturing
11. The project licence application
12. Small laboratory animals
13. Genetically modified animals and harmful mutants
14. Carnivores
15. Primates
16. The larger domestic species
17. Birds
18. Amphibia
19. Wild animals
Glossary
Index