For our children : the ethics of animal experimentation in the age of genetic engineering / Anders Nordgren.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-193) and index.

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This book provides an overview of different ethical views on animal experimentation. It proposes a middle course between those that are very critical and those very positive. It supports this position by an argument from species care according to which we have special obligations to our children and other humans due to special relations. Special attention is given to genetically modified animals. --

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Introduction : animal experimentation, public opinion, and philosophical debate. Animal experimentation ; Genetically modified animals ; Public attitudes toward animal experimentation ; Public attitudes toward genetically modified animals ; The philosophical debate -- Five ethical prototypes of animal experimentation. Human dominion ; Equal consideration of interests ; Animal rights ; Strong human priority ; Weak human priority ; A spectrum of views -- The case for "weak human priority." Legal regulation and the five prototypes ; Ethical theory ; Key metaphors ; Intrinsic and relational properties ; Reason and feelings ; Impartiality and special obligations ; From "is" to "ought" ; Strengths and weaknesses of the five prototypes ; Proposal : weak human priority ; Differences compared to Midgley's version ; Moral imagination and imaginative casuistry ; Moral imagination in animal experimentation -- The scientific value of animal experimentation. Animal experimentation in present-day basic and applied research ; Prototypical cases of scientifically valuable animal experiments ; The Con argument from causal disanalogy ; Objections to the Con argument from causal disanology ; The 3Rs : replacement, reduction, refinement ; Implications of the five prototypes for the 3Rs ; The 3Rs : practical implications -- Animal welfare and ethical balancing. Three animal welfare concerns ; A comprehensive approach ; Conceptual implications ; Ethical implications ; Animal sentience ; Animal welfare in animal experimentation ; Ethical balancing in animal experimentation -- Genetically modified animals in research. Implications of the five prototypes ; Scientific concerns ; Intrinsic ethical concerns ; Animal welfare concerns ; Ethical trade-off : four cases.

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