Ethics in laboratory animal research

• A research fild within philosophy, a research dicipline at universities • Philosophical reflection about our morality, about what is “right and wrong” • the more theoretical or abstract reasoning

Differes between cultures everyday “right and wrong” Self-evident attitudes everybody has a morality

• right and wrong in a legal sense • legal norms, enforced by legislative system in each country • always based on ethics, or at least on values and principles hold by the society

• consistency • if one is to distinguish ethically between situation A and situation B one needs to be able to point to a relevant difference that justifies this • no privileges • ethical norms and principles proposed shall not favorise myself or my friends, but be of universal character. Unless there are valid differences

We use animals in medical research • since they are similar enough to give relevant results • since they are different enough to justify the suffering and pain we cause

15 in total • 6 scientists • 6 laymen • 2 lawyers • One who writes the protocol • appointed by the swedish board of agriculture

• the 3Rs and two other issues that came up with the use of GM animals • responsibility • respect • for ethical dilemma • for ethical paradox • for life