David DeGrazia: An Ethical Framework for Animal Research (ENI-G Webinar, Dec 10th, 2020)
Channel: Neural Circuits and Cognition Lab
Date: 2021-01-04

David DeGrazia

An Ethical Framework for Animal Research With Reflections on Basic Research and Nonhuman Primates


This talk will motivate and briefly defend an ethical framework for animal research that Tom Beauchamp and I introduce in our book, Principles of Animal Research Ethics, before offering reflections on basic research and nonhuman primate subjects.  After providing background to our framework, I will explain and argue for three principles of social benefit and three principles of animal welfare.  Then I will indicate how this framework is more comprehensive than the canonical “3 Rs.”  After next presenting a decision tree implied by the six principles, I will comment on the framework’s implications for basic research and for the use of NHPs.