Experimenting with Humans and Animals, second edition

"Guerrini applies a new prism to the history of human and animal experimentation, refracting important narrative lines of sight. By connecting cases of prisoners, children, and enslaved persons, all as unwilling subjects, to CRISPR-edited rats and DNA-rich museum specimens, this book illuminates even further scientific research's ethical and cultural legacies in the post-COVID world."

"Guerrini's compelling history of our experimentation on humans and other animals is also an interrogation of experimental practice itself, examining the ideals and standards of science in a range of eras and settings. Fine-tuned and expanded to include more content on human experimentation and on animals outside the laboratory, this essential text for scholars, teachers, and students is now even more useful."

"An accessible and engaging overview of efforts to understand how bodies work. By treating histories of medicine and animal experimentation together, Guerrini reunites stories that are too often told separately, giving us a far richer account of how our own health is linked to that of the animals around us."

"In revising what remains the best historical introduction to the use of animals in scientific and medical research, attentive to how the experimental use of animals reflects wider societal values, Guerrini extends her study to include a timely reflection on how the COVID-19 pandemic brought human-animal relations back to the center of public debate. A concise, balanced account of a challenging topic that serves as an ideal departure point for anybody interested in better understanding this complex and often contested subject."

"In 2003, Experimenting with Humans and Animals was a gift to those of us working to tether what seemed to be two distinct disciplines: animal studies and the medical humanities. This updated edition introduces the multispecies nature of public health to a new generation of scholars. From the perspective of another zoonotic global pandemic, Guerrini's historical book now looks prescient."