实验动物科学带来的伦理问题在中国的表现

实验动物是在一定条件下人工饲养繁殖 ,具有特定的生物学特性 ,用于科学研究的动物。实验动物是生命科学不可缺少的支撑条件 ,是为人类的健康和发展作出贡献和牺牲的生命体。实验动物科学包括实验动物和动物实验 ,是生命科学中的重要分支。随着人类社会、经济和文化的发展 ,动物福利和动物伦理问题已经全面渗透到了实验动物科学的领域之中。动物保护主义与实验动物科学在一定程度上存在着不可避免的冲突。从保护野生动物到保护人工饲养的动物 ,从保护宠物到保护实验动物 ,是很自然的轨迹 ;保护野生动物的行为及宠物的普及使人们难以接受动物…

Ethic Problems of Laboratory Animal Science in China

Laboratory animal is the animal with artificial feeding in the certain conditions, having the particular biological characteristics and for scientific research. They are indispensable props of life science and have made great contributions and sacrifices for human health and development. Laboratory animal science is an important branch of the life science,including laboratory animal and animal experiment. Along with development of mankind society, economy and civilization, now the realm of laboratory animal science is confronted with the problems of animal welfare and animal ethics.The animal protectionism inevitably conflict with the laboratory animal science in the certain way. People protect the wild animals first, then protect the artificially fed animal. Also people protect pets first and then protect the laboratory animals. Now it is popularization of protecting the wild and petted animals. It makes people hard to accept the reality of the experiments with animals. But life science especially biomedicine can't make great progress without the laboratory animals.