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The Emergence and Development of Animal Research Ethics: A Review with a Focus on Nonhuman Primates
The ethics of using nonhuman animals in biomedical research is usually seen as a subfield of animal ethics. In recent years, however, the ethics of animal research has increasingly become a subfield within research ethics under the term “animal research ethics”. Consequently, ethical issues have bec...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7417401/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32350758 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11948-020-00219-z |
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description | The ethics of using nonhuman animals in biomedical research is usually seen as a subfield of animal ethics. In recent years, however, the ethics of animal research has increasingly become a subfield within research ethics under the term “animal research ethics”. Consequently, ethical issues have become prominent that are familiar in the context of human research ethics, such as autonomy or self-determination, harms and benefits, justice, and vulnerability. After a brief overview of the development of the field and a discussion of relevant theoretical ethical frameworks, I consider two of these issues, namely autonomy and self-determination on the one hand, and harms and benefits on the other hand. My concern is with philosophical and ethical issues, rather than animal research oversight. I focus my discussion on nonhuman primates, as the most plausible nonhuman candidates for this approach. I conclude that the approach, although promising, depends strongly on the moral status of nonhuman research subjects. |
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spelling | pubmed-74174012020-08-17 The Emergence and Development of Animal Research Ethics: A Review with a Focus on Nonhuman Primates Arnason, Gardar Sci Eng Ethics Original Research/Scholarship The ethics of using nonhuman animals in biomedical research is usually seen as a subfield of animal ethics. In recent years, however, the ethics of animal research has increasingly become a subfield within research ethics under the term “animal research ethics”. Consequently, ethical issues have become prominent that are familiar in the context of human research ethics, such as autonomy or self-determination, harms and benefits, justice, and vulnerability. After a brief overview of the development of the field and a discussion of relevant theoretical ethical frameworks, I consider two of these issues, namely autonomy and self-determination on the one hand, and harms and benefits on the other hand. My concern is with philosophical and ethical issues, rather than animal research oversight. I focus my discussion on nonhuman primates, as the most plausible nonhuman candidates for this approach. I conclude that the approach, although promising, depends strongly on the moral status of nonhuman research subjects. Springer Netherlands 2020-04-29 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7417401/ /pubmed/32350758 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11948-020-00219-z Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Original Research/Scholarship Arnason, Gardar The Emergence and Development of Animal Research Ethics: A Review with a Focus on Nonhuman Primates |
title | The Emergence and Development of Animal Research Ethics: A Review with a Focus on Nonhuman Primates |
title_full | The Emergence and Development of Animal Research Ethics: A Review with a Focus on Nonhuman Primates |
title_fullStr | The Emergence and Development of Animal Research Ethics: A Review with a Focus on Nonhuman Primates |
title_full_unstemmed | The Emergence and Development of Animal Research Ethics: A Review with a Focus on Nonhuman Primates |
title_short | The Emergence and Development of Animal Research Ethics: A Review with a Focus on Nonhuman Primates |
title_sort | emergence and development of animal research ethics: a review with a focus on nonhuman primates |
topic | Original Research/Scholarship |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7417401/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32350758 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11948-020-00219-z |
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