Joining forces: the need to combine science and ethics to address problems of validity and translation in neuropsychiatry research using animal models

Abstract Background Current policies regulating the use of animals for scientific purposes are based on balancing between potential gain of knowledge and suffering of animals used in experimentation. The balancing process is complicated, on the one hand by plurality of views on our duties towards an...

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Main Authors: Franck L. B. Meijboom, Elzbieta Kostrzewa, Cathalijn H. C. Leenaars
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-01-01
Series:Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13010-019-0085-4