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- Title
A Zoopolean look at animal research ethics.
- Authors
FENTON, ANDREW
- Abstract
I will discuss how animal laboratory research can be ethically analyzed using Donaldson and Kymlicka's political theory of animal rights. To accomplish this, I will not presuppose their strong animal rights framework. Donaldson and Kymlicka's approach revolves around some basic human-animal relationships, reflecting the relational turn in applied ethics writ large. However, they do not discuss laboratory animal research in any detail, and so an extension to that domain of animal use is in order. Donaldson and Kymlicka's emphasis on human-animal relationships is useful for reminding ourselves that in laboratories various staff or personnel can develop bonds with captive animals that make it difficult to follow certain protocols as well as create a deep and lasting negative impression. Though, when suitably modified, Donaldson and Kymlicka's political theory can apply to animal research ethics, it can only do so if we ask more from all members of our society.
- Subjects
LABORATORY animals; RESEARCH ethics; HUMAN-animal relationships; ANIMAL rights; APPLIED ethics
- Publication
Between the Species: A Journal for the Study of Philosophy & Animals, 2020, Vol 23, Issue 1, p133
- ISSN
1945-8487
- Publication type
Article