BioethxChat

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T1a: What do we mean when we say that some entity/organism has ‘rights?’ #bioethx

 

T1b: Do animals have rights? Are they the same types of ‘rights’ humans have? #bioethx

 

T2: If new medical treatment for humans needs to be tested, is it ethical to test first on animals? #bioethx

 

T3: Is it ethical to breed animals to have qualities we want- dogs to be friendly, cows to be meaty, knock-out gene mice, etc? #bioethx

 

T4: Is it ethical to create chimera organisms – animals with mixed genes from other animals or humans? #bioethx

 

 

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For more information on this subject, check out:

1. Philosopher Calls For End To Animal Experimentation (And More): Is There A "Reasonable" Conception Of Animal Rights?

2. Video: Ethics Rounds: NIH Research with Chimpanzees

3. Animals are Already Legal Persons: On Steven Wise, the Nonhuman Rights Project, and Misguided Personhood Debates

4. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Rights

5. Peter Singer Advocates for Animal Rights

6. BBC Ethics Guide: Animal Rights

7. NIH: Medical Research With Animals Guide

8. Virtual Mentor: Xenotransplantation and the Problem of Boundaries

9. Moral Confusion: If Non-Human Animals are Made Partly Human

10. NIH: Laboratory Animal Care and Use