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What Do We Owe The Other Animals In Health-Related Research?, Jessica A. Du Toit
What Do We Owe The Other Animals In Health-Related Research?, Jessica A. Du Toit
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In this dissertation, I provide an account of the protections to which most captive non-human animals are morally entitled when they participate in health-related research. At least in the animal ethics literature, it is uncontroversial that the protections currently afforded to captive research animals are inadequate. This has much to do with the fact that most animals who serve as research participants are 1) sentient and, thus, have important morally considerable interests; 2) unable to provide informed consent to their research participation; and 3) seriously harmed as a result of their participation.
Unsurprisingly, then, a number of authors have proposed …