Notes to Pages 86–93 / 137id/13880104/. For the Wyeth incident, see Ginsberg, “Lab Mice Meet Untimely
Demise.” For the NIH facility, see Specter, “Lab Mishap Destroys AIDS Mice.”
- See Orlans, “Data on Animal Experimentation”; Carbone, What Ani-
mals Want. Although the total number of animals used in research is stag-
gering, it is still less than 1 percent of the number of animals killed for food. - For a discussion of the identifi cation of animals as “heroes” and the
use of the term sacrifi ce, see Arluke, “Sacrifi cial Symbolism in Animal Exper-
imentation”; Birke, Arluke, and Michael, Sacrifi ce, 69, 100; Lynch, “Sacrifi ce
and the Transformation of the Animal Body”; Phillips, “Proper Names.” - Risk Management Solutions, Tr opica l Stor m A lli son, 6, 8; Berger, “Med
Center Warned on Flooding in ’99.” - In its path from the Gulf region to the mid-Atlantic states, Allison
took close to fi fty human lives. - Schub, “Year of the Flood,” 35, 36; Risk Management Solutions, Tr opi-
cal Storm Allison, 11. For the Baylor College of Medicine’s account of the fl ood,
see “Dr. Feigin Reports on Flood Damage and Recovery,” Portal, Fall 2001.
Available at http://connect.bcm.edu/Page.aspx?pid=403. - Quoted in Schub, “Year of the Flood,” 8.
- Aronauer, “Animal-Rights Groups Demand Punishment.”
- Berger, “Lab Animals Drown.”
- Aynesworth, “Floods Ruin Years of Health Research.”
- Berger, “‘We Failed Them.’”
- Goodwin, Water, Water: Ever ywhere.
- Quoted in Brown, “New Space,” 14.
- On the labels we assign to rodents, see Herzog, “Confl icts of Interest”;
idem, “Human Morality and Animal Research; Birke, “Who—or What—Are
the Rats?” - Herzog, “Moral Status of Mice,” 473. On the moral status we attribute
to animals, see also Burghardt and Herzog, “Beyond Conspecifi cs.” - On the breeding of dogs and cats, see Ritvo, Animal Estate, 84–85,
93–94, 115–121. On the creation of animals, especially mice, standardized for
research, see Birke, “Who—or What—Are the Rats?”; Maher, “Test Tubes with
Tails”; Rader, Making Mice, chaps. 1–3; Rader, “Mouse People”; Birke, Arluke,
and Michael, Sacrifi ce, chap. 1. - The political and cultural efforts to defi ne cancer as a social problem
worthy of research and philanthropy have received signifi cant scholarly atten-
tion. See, e.g., Patterson, Dread Disease, chaps. 1, 3, 5, 7; Fujimora, Crafting Sci-
ence, 6. - Rader, “Multiple Meanings of Laboratory Animals,” 393–394.
- Ahern, “Rodent Revolution.”
- Genetic material from bioluminescent jellyfi sh is frequently inserted
into mice so that particular genes will illuminate when activated.