Humanism as the Main Bioethical Category in Medical Research Involving Animals
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https://doi.org/10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2021.07.13Keywords:
history, animals, medicine, education, 3R principlesAbstract
Animals are at the heart of biological and medical disciplines when carrying out educational and research exercises, both in the laboratory and in the classroom. Recent technological developments and the advancement of ethics have made it possible for traditional views on the relation of the researcher-experimenter to the research subject to evolve. At the Department of Physiology at St. Petersburg University, teachers are gradually abandoning the use of animals in practical exercises, actively introducing alternative methods of instruction to medical students. Such changes are taking place due to the fact that an increasing number of students defend the position that animals ought to remain unharmed. Replacing animals with alternative methods of research does not impair the quality of education and has a number of significant advantages: speed and depth of training, an individualistic approach, repeatability, ease of monitoring and evaluating results, the potential for autodidactic study, and a positive attitude to life.
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