Restriction on animal experimentation for medical education and research: pros and cons
Keywords:
Animal experiments, Ethics, Biomedical research, Drug discovery, Medical educationAbstract
Recently, a lot have been written and discussed about animal experiments and ethics. Still there is too much confusion among academicians and researchers about the future of use of animals in biomedical research and up to what extent their use in laboratory, research institutions, and medical colleges. This article highlighted and discussed about various aspects of this burning issue along with several pros and cons.
References
Degrazia D. Regarding animals: mental life, moral status, and use in biomedical research: an introduction to the special issue. Theor Med Bioeth. 2006;27(4):277-84.
Festing S, Wilkinson R. The ethics of animal research. Talking point on the use of animals in scientific research. EMBO Rep. 2007;8(6):526-30.
Le Fanu J. The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine. London: Abacus; 1999.
Rivera SM, Gilman AG. Drug invention and the pharmaceutical industry. In: Brunton LL, Chabner BA, Knollmann BC, editors. Goodman & Gilman’s the Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics. 12th Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2011: 8-9.
Raveendran R. Animal experimentation in post-graduate training. J Pharmacol Pharmacother. 2014;5(3):179-80.
Kumar N, Singh S, Pal R, Kumar R. Lack of research aptitude in medical education. Int J Basic Clin Pharmacol. 2014;3(1):247-8.
Available at http://envfor.nic.in/division/committee-purpose-control-and-supervision-experiments-animals-cpcsea. Accessed 21 October 2014.
