John P. Gluck is professor emeritus of psychology and a senior advisor to the president on animal research ethics and welfare at the University of New Mexico. He is also research professor of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University and the coauthor of The Human Use of Animals.
Gluck tells the compelling story of how his thinking about human uses of primates in research evolved.His story is one of a professional psychologist learning to think beyond the value of his scientific research by incorporating thinking about the circumstances and points of view of the animals involved in the research. Gluck assesses how human beliefs about valid and necessary research with animals can easily be incoherent with basic moral standards.This gracefully written book is a beautiful read filled with insights about how we should and should not treat animals in research. --Tom L. Beauchamp, coeditor, The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics