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- Introduction
- Societal context of animal research
- Historical views on invasive animal research
- Utilitarian view of invasive animal research
- Early legislation in the UK
- The rise of animal research in the US
- Legislation in the US (1960s)
- Societal concerns for animals in the US
- Legislation updates in the US
- Legislation in the EU
- Legislation updates in the UK
- Alternative legislation attempts
- The scientific community's attitude
- Social and professional ethics
- Advances in societal concerns
- New ethic for animals
- Three layers of ethical concern
- Addressing animal distress
- Animal telos
- Animal teloi and physical pain (1)
- Animal teloi and physical pain (2)
- An example of ethology
- Summary
- References
Topics Covered
- Societal context of invasive animal research
- Legislation of animal testing
- The scientific community's attitude towards the ethics of animals research
- Three layers of ethical concern regarding animal research
- Animal teloi
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Rollin, B.E. (2015, February 11). The moral status of invasive animal research [Video file]. In The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved December 22, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.69645/IKTC2677.Export Citation (RIS)
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Financial Disclosures
- Prof. Bernard E. Rollin has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.
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0:00
My name is Bernard Rollin.
I'm a university distinguished
professor of philosophy,
biomedical sciences
and animal sciences
at Colorado State University.
I will be addressing the
question of the moral status
of invasive animal research.
0:18
In order to retain custom,
freedom and autonomy,
industries, businesses
and professions
must operate in accord with social
expectations, and societal ethics.
Failure to accomplish this
is very likely to result
in onerous external regulation,
far more difficult to adhere
to than voluntary self regulation.
This observation is particularly
true of animal research.
During the 1970s animal
research was greatly
unsynchronized with social concern
regarding the treatment of animals,
growing out of the research
community's failure
to realize that emerging societal
ethics for animals, viewed
animal research as a moral issue.
For example, there was
essentially no analgesia
employed in animal research, even
for the most painful invasive
project.
One notorious editorial in a
prominent international science
journal opined that quote "Animal
research is not a moral issue,
is a scientific necessity."
As if it could not be both.
1:18
Indeed, ethical ambivalence
about the moral status
of scientific research has been
extant since the Renaissance.
With the rise of animal research and
such philosophical justifications
for it as Descartes's denial of
consciousness, awareness and pain
in animals, not everyone
welcomed such arguments.
In a fascinating book opposing
Descartes's view of animals as
machines, titled From
Beast-Machine to Man-Machine,
historian of science
Leonora Cohen Rosenfield
chronicled contemporary vigorous
opposition to Descartes, including
the views of theologians
who emphatically affirmed
that Descartes must be
wrong about animal's souls
because quote "heaven would
not be heaven without my dog."
Inevitably, such opinions, as
well a strong moral feelings
towards animals inherent
in common decency,
gave rise to strong social
opinions opposing animal research
and favoring anti vivisection,
particularly in Great Britain.
Indeed, some of the early
researchers utilizing animals
were highly ambivalent
about such use,
but relied on invoking cost
benefit analysis to justify it.