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This volume presents a framework of general principles for animal research ethics together with an analysis of the principles' meaning and moral requirements. Tom L. Beauchamp and David DeGrazia's comprehensive framework addresses ethical requirements pertaining to societal benefit (the most important consideration in justifying the harming of animals in research) and features a thorough, ethically defensible program of animal welfare. The book also features commentaries on the framework of principles by eminent figures in animal research ethics from an array of relevant disciplines:…mehr

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This volume presents a framework of general principles for animal research ethics together with an analysis of the principles' meaning and moral requirements. Tom L. Beauchamp and David DeGrazia's comprehensive framework addresses ethical requirements pertaining to societal benefit (the most important consideration in justifying the harming of animals in research) and features a thorough, ethically defensible program of animal welfare. The book also features commentaries on the framework of principles by eminent figures in animal research ethics from an array of relevant disciplines: veterinary medicine, biomedical research, biology, zoology, comparative psychology, primatology, law, and bioethics.
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Tom L. Beauchamp is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Bioethics, Georgetown University. His research centers on biomedical ethics, animal research ethics, and the philosophy of David Hume. His books include Principles of Biomedical Ethics (with James Childress); A History and Theory of Informed Consent (with Ruth Faden); Standing on Principles: Collected Essays; Hume and the Problem of Causation (with Alexander Rosenberg); and five volumes of the critical edition of David Hume's Philosophy published in Oxford University Press's Clarendon Hume editions. From 1976-78 he drafted the bulk of The Belmont Report for the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects. He has been given the Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Research Ethics by Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R); the Henry Beecher Award of the Hastings Center, New York; and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH). David DeGrazia is Elton Professor of Philosophy at George Washington University and Senior Research Fellow in the National Institutes of Health Department of Bioethics. DeGrazia's research focuses primarily on applied ethics and ethical theory. His scholarly work on animals addresses their moral status, their consciousness and cognitive capacities, and the ethics of using animals in research and for food. In 2018 he was named a Fellow of the Hastings Center and the recipient of GWU's Distinguished Scholar Award.