Day 2: Animal and Human Experimentation

Here's the Powerpoint from today:
http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dfrz2qdt_15f9jbgqft&invite=1587540991

Here are those two organizations mentioned:
Americans for Medical Progress: http://curedisease.com/
PCRM: http://pcrm.org/resch/

The paper below by me might be of interest: "Rational Engagement, Emotional Response and the Prospects for Progress in Animal Use 'Debates'" (in WORD) for Jeremy Garrett, ed., Animal Research in Theory and Practice (MIT Basic Bioethics Series. 2009). [Final version , shortened a bit]. Here's a draft of an APPENDIX that addresses more arguments.

Thursday, May 28, 2009 8:00 a.m.-8:50 a.m., Nabrit-Mapp-McBay Lecture Room II

Human & Animal Experimentation

READINGS: 1. Rollin, Ch. 4., “Ethics and Research on Human Beings,” in Science and Ethics. 2. Tom Regan, “Empty Cages” (widely reprinted): http://aphilosopher.googlepages.com/regan-emptycages.htm 3. Bernard Rollin, Ch. 5, “Animal Research,” in Science and Ethics. 4. “The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research,” Carl Cohen, The New England Journal of Medicine, 1986, 315: 865-870. http://aphilosopher.googlepages.com/cohen.pdf WRITING ASSIGNMENT 2 (due at the beginning of class): First, summarize the arguably morally worse experiments done on human beings. Give what you think is the best explanation for why these experiments were morally wrong; give reasons why your explanation is best. Second, summarize the arguably morally worse experiments done on animals. Give what you think is the best explanation for why these experiments were (or are) morally wrong; give reasons why your explanation is best. Third, explain how your explanations for the wrongness of certain kinds of human experiments relate to your explanation of the morality of certain kinds of animal experiments: does one have implications for the other and vice-versa? Explain the relations. 3 pages.