What is Larry Carbone's highest-rated book?

"What Animals Want: Expertise" is Larry Carbone's most notable book among those reviewed on LuvemBooks.

How many Larry Carbone books are reviewed on LuvemBooks?

We have reviewed 1 book by Larry Carbone.

What genres does Larry Carbone write?

Larry Carbone's books span genres including Pet Care, Politics & Society, Science & Nature.

We have reviewed one book by Larry Carbone so far. What Animals Want: Expertise and Advocacy in Laboratory Animal Welfare Policy (2004) examines how scientific expertise shapes animal welfare regulations and argues for a more inclusive approach to understanding what laboratory animals need.

Larry Carbone

Larry Carbone is a laboratory veterinarian and writer with a background spanning veterinary science and the humanities. He directs the Animal Care and Use Program at the University of California, San Francisco, and is the author of What Animals Want: Expertise and Advocacy in Laboratory Animal Welfare Policy (Oxford University Press, 2004) and The Hidden Lives of Lab Animals. He also pursues pottery as an avocation.

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What Animals Want: Expertise

Larry Carbone's What Animals Want: Expertise and Advocacy in Laboratory Animal Welfare Policy (Oxford University Press, 2004) is a policy-focused nonfiction work by a veterinarian who brings both scientific credentials and training in the history of science and veterinary ethics to one of the most contested intersections in American regulatory life — the question of what animal welfare standards should govern laboratory research.

Reviewed Mar 21, 2026

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Larry Carbone is a laboratory veterinarian whose writing bridges scientific expertise and advocacy, examining how policy and ethics shape animal welfare in research settings. His work, including the reviewed What Animals Want: Expertise and Advocacy in Laboratory Animal Welfare Policy, draws on his directorship of UC San Francisco's Animal Care and Use Program to interrogate the gap between what scientists know animals need and what regulations actually require.

Where should I start?: Start with What Animals Want: Expertise and Advocacy in Laboratory Animal Welfare Policy. It's Carbone's foundational work and the clearest entry point to his core argument: that animal welfare policy often fails because it relies on narrow scientific definitions of need rather than on what animals actually want or require for well-being.
What's their writing style?: Carbone writes as a working scientist and ethicist—precise, evidence-grounded, and direct. He avoids jargon bloat but doesn't simplify complex welfare questions either. His voice carries the weight of someone arguing from inside institutional systems, making a case for why policy needs to change based on both data and lived observation.
Books we've reviewed: We have reviewed one book by Larry Carbone so far. What Animals Want: Expertise and Advocacy in Laboratory Animal Welfare Policy (2004) examines how scientific expertise shapes animal welfare regulations and argues for a more inclusive approach to understanding what laboratory animals need.
What genre does he write?: Carbone writes in the genres of policy analysis, bioethics, and scientific advocacy. His work is non-fiction focused on institutional practices, regulatory frameworks, and the ethics of animal research—not fiction or memoir, but informed by his professional experience.
Why does his work matter?: Carbone writes from inside the systems he critiques—as someone who implements animal welfare policy every day at a major research institution. His work bridges the gap between what scientists know and what regulators enforce, making a case that both expertise and ethics must inform policy.

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Larry Carbone is a laboratory veterinarian and writer who directs the Animal Care and Use Program at the University of California, San Francisco. His career spans veterinary science and the humanities, and he is known for his work on laboratory animal welfare policy and the lived experience of research animals. Beyond writing, he practices pottery.

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