What kinds of moral challenges arise from encounters between species in
laboratory science? Animal Ethos draws on ethnographic engagement with
academic labs in which experimental research involving nonhuman species
provokes difficult questions involving life and death, scientific
progress, and other competing quandaries. Whereas much has been written
on core bioethical values that inform regulated behavior in labs, Lesley
A. Sharp reveals the importance of attending to lab personnel's
quotidian and unscripted responses to animals. Animal Ethos exposes
the rich--yet poorly understood--moral dimensions of daily lab life,
where serendipitous, creative, and unorthodox responses are evidence of
concerted efforts by researchers, animal technicians, veterinarians, and
animal activists to transform animal laboratories into moral scientific
worlds.