Essays about: "animal ethics committees"

Found 1 essay containing the words animal ethics committees.

  1. 1. Decision making and the role of empathy in animal ethics committees (AECs)

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Environment and Health

    Author : Elisabeth Tjärnström; [2013]
    Keywords : laboratory animals; animal ethics committees; ethical review; empathy; anthrozoology;

    Abstract : Ethical evaluation of scientific studies carried out using animals is legally mandated in many countries and has been so in Sweden for over three decades. The animal ethics committees (AECs) responsible for the task have however been subjected to criticism; common critique being that the wrong issues are discussed and that the ethical evaluation is thus incomplete, that there is a lack of coherence across committees and that the committees are not as democratic as they might appear. READ MORE