The Upper Limits of Pain and Suffering in Animal Research: A Moral Assessment of the European Union’s Legislative Framework

The control of risk and harm in human research often calls for the establishment of upper limits of risk of pain, suffering, and distress that investigators must not exceed. Such upper limits are uncommon in animal research, in which limits of acceptability are usually left to the discretion of indi...

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Authors: Beauchamp, Tom L. (Author) ; Morton, David B. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2015
In: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 2015, Volume: 24, Issue: 4, Pages: 431-447
Further subjects:B upper limits of suffering
B deontic constraints
B Beneficence
B Animal welfare
B Animal Research
B Animal Suffering
B Nonmaleficence
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