Toward an Anti-Maleficent Research Agenda. (January 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ferdowsian, Hope; Fuentes, Agustin; Johnson, L. Syd M; King, Barbara J.; Pierce, Jessica
• Is Part Of: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics. Volume 31:Number 1(2022)
• Page Start: 54
• Page End: 58
• Publication Date: 2022-01
• Subjects: research ethics -- animal subjects -- morally defensible research; Medical ethics -- Periodicals; 174.2
• DOI: 10.1017/S0963180121000487
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0963-1801

Abstract

Abstract: Important advances in biomedical and behavioral research ethics have occurred over the past few decades, many of them centered on identifying and eliminating significant harms to human subjects of research. Comprehensive attention has not been paid to the totality of harms experienced by animal subjects, although scientific and moral progress require explicit appraisal of these harms. Science is a public good and the prioritizing within, conduct of, generation of, and application of research must soundly address questions about which research is morally defensible and valuable enough to support through funding, publication, tenure, and promotion. Likewise, educational pathways of re-imagined science are critical.