Animal Experimentation: Ethical Aspects

Anders Nordgren

This project is a further development of two previous projects. The first was "Transgenic animals in research: ethical aspects", which I carried out together with Dr. Helena Röcklinsberg (funded by The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (the ELSA Programme) and The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (Programme of ethics research in connection to Swegene and WCN)). The focus of this project was the production and use of genetically modified animals in biomedical research. The second project was "On health and welfare in the worlds of animals and humans" led by Professor Lennart Nordenfelt (funded by the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS)). It was a comparative study of human and veterinary medicine regarding the concepts of health and welfare. Within this project I had the opportunity to study the ethical implications of various conceptions of animal welfare. In the present project I focus on both animal experimentation in general and the production and experimental use of genetically modified animals in particular.

Publications:

Nordgren A, 2002. Animal experimentation: pro and con arguments using the theory of evolution. Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy 5(1), pp. 23-31.

Nordgren A, 2004. Moral imagination in tissue engineering research on animal models. Biomaterials 25, pp. 1723-1734.

Nordgren A, Röcklinsberg H, 2005. Genetically modified animals in research: an analysis of applications submitted to ethics committees on animal experimentation in Sweden. Animal Welfare 14, pp. 239-248.

Nordgren A, 2010. For Our Children: The Ethics of Animal Experimentation in the Age of Genetic Engineering. Value Inquiry Book Series. Amsterdam - New York: Rodopi.

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