Journal article
A Compassionate Autonomy Alternative to Speciesism
Theoretical medicine and bioethics, v 22(3), pp 237-246
01 Jun 2001
PMID: 11499497
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Abstract
Many people in the animal welfare communityhave argued that the use of nonhuman animals inmedical research is necessarily based onspeciesism, an unjustified prejudice based onspecies membership. As such it is morally akinto racism and sexism. This is misguided. Thecombined capacities for autonomy and sentiencewith the obligations derived from relationssupport a morally justifiable rationale forusing some nonhuman animals in order to limitthe risk of harm to humans. There may be a fewcases where it is morally better to use a neversentient human than a sentient animal, butthese cases are few and would not fulfill thecurrent need for research subjects. The use ofnonautonomous animals instead of humans inrisky research can be based on solid moralground. It is not necessarily speciesism.
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- Title
- A Compassionate Autonomy Alternative to Speciesism
- Creators
- Constance Perry - Hahnemann University Hospital
- Publication Details
- Theoretical medicine and bioethics, v 22(3), pp 237-246
- Publisher
- Springer Nature B.V
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Health Administration
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000169521100006
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0034916761
- Other Identifier
- 991019168419304721
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