動物実験の倫理に関する調査研究

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Information about ethics in the current state of animal experiments was obtained from specialists through a questionnaire. The questionnaires were sent out to 110 scientists (including students) in the fields of medicine, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, agriculture, science: and engineering. The return rate of the questionnaires filled out was 62%. Questions were itemized as follows: legal regulations, experimental guidelines, ethics committee, a sense of guilt and resistance to animal experiments, euthanasia, species & number of animals, and problems awaiting solutions or improvement. Regulations and guidelines are well-known among medical, veterinary and pharmaceutical scientists, and it is each institution's ethics committee duty to monitor animal experiments. However, there are some problems in other fields. 71% of scientists feel a sense of guilt and resistance to animal experiments. Contrarily, 80% of scientists accepted euthanasia. Many scientists make it a rule to give service for the departed soul of the animal. The authors considered this phenomenon from religious viewpoints (Shintoism, Buddhism and Confucianism). There is a critical difference in the view of animals between Japanese and Western people who have Judaism-Christianity as a spiritual backbone.
東海大学の論文
2000-03-10