Article ID: CBB804976275

Improvising care: Managing experimental animals at a Japanese laboratory (October 2021)

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Japanese scientists and technicians are expected to adhere to international standards of humane animal experimentation, but their understandings of human-animal relationships and their ways of caring for laboratory animals do not always fit neatly with global norms. Under the loose and eclectic regulations that govern animal testing in Japan, animal ethicists, scientists and technicians behave improvisationally to deal with tensions and discomfort. This article focuses on how these actors bring various ‘moves’ to this improvisational care, such as everyday eating and spiritual practices. I develop the concept of ‘chains of improvisation’. In contrast with the more commonly used notion of ‘tinkering’, this concept helps to articulate a case where care is continuously destabilized and remade through encounters with otherness. By paying attention to how members of this laboratory question what good care for laboratory animals entails, this case provides an opening for rethinking the cost-benefit logic that underlies global discourses around laboratory animal ethics.

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Authors & Contributors
Tibor Dessewffy
Boer, Bas de
Melkers, Julia
Te Molder, Hedwig
Dániel Váry
Greenhough, Beth
Concepts
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Research
Expertise
Governance
Animal experimentation
Medicine
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
Places
Great Britain
South Korea
Buenos Aires (Argentina)
United States
Hungary
Canada
Institutions
Industrial Technology Research Institute- ITRI
Korea Institute of Science and Technology - KIST
Brandeis University
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