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Ethical Issues in Behavioral Neuroscience

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    Chapter 278 A Framework for Investigating Animal Consciousness
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    Chapter 279 Telos, Conservation of Welfare, and Ethical Issues in Genetic Engineering of Animals
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    Chapter 318 Would the Elimination of the Capacity to Suffer Solve Ethical Dilemmas in Experimental Animal Research?
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    Chapter 319 Does the Goal Justify the Methods? Harm and Benefit in Neuroscience Research Using Animals.
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    Chapter 328 Ethical Issues Associated with the Use of Animal Experimentation in Behavioral Neuroscience Research
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    Chapter 329 The Use of Animal Models in Behavioural Neuroscience Research.
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    Chapter 333 What’s Special about the Ethical Challenges of Studying Disorders with Altered Brain Activity?
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    Chapter 334 How Does Enhancing Cognition Affect Human Values? How Does This Translate into Social Responsibility?
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    Chapter 335 Genetic Testing and Neuroimaging for Youth at Risk for Mental Illness: Trading off Benefit and Risk
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    Chapter 336 Deep Brain Stimulation: A Principled and Pragmatic Approach to Understanding the Ethical and Clinical Challenges of an Evolving Technology.
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    Chapter 337 Money and Morals : Ending Clinical Trials for Financial Reasons.
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    Chapter 338 Externalization of Consciousness. Scientific Possibilities and Clinical Implications
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    Chapter 339 Just Like a Circus: The Public Consumption of Sex Differences
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    Chapter 340 Ethical Issues and Ethical Therapy Associated with Anxiety Disorders
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    Chapter 342 Effects of Brain Lesions on Moral Agency: Ethical Dilemmas in Investigating Moral Behavior
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    Chapter 343 Ethical Issues in Behavioral Neuroscience : Ethics of Human Research in Behavioral Neuroscience: Overview of Section II.
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Chapter title
Does the Goal Justify the Methods? Harm and Benefit in Neuroscience Research Using Animals.
Chapter number 319
Book title
Ethical Issues in Behavioral Neuroscience
Published in
Current topics in behavioral neurosciences, May 2014
DOI 10.1007/7854_2014_319
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Book ISBNs
978-3-66-244865-6, 978-3-66-244866-3
Authors

Ana Catarina Vieira de Castro, I Anna S Olsson, I. Anna S. Olsson, Vieira de Castro, Ana Catarina, Olsson, I. Anna S.

Editors

Grace Lee, Judy Illes, Frauke Ohl

Abstract

The goal of the present chapter is to open up for discussion some of the major ethical issues involved in animal-based neuroscience research. We begin by approaching the question of the moral acceptability of the use of animals in research at all, exploring the implications of three different ethical theories: contractarianism, utilitarianism, and animal rights. In the rest of this chapter, we discuss more specific issues of neuroscience research within what we argue is the mainstream framework for research animal ethics, namely one based on harm-benefit analysis. We explore issues of harms and benefits and how to balance them as well as how to reduce harm and increase benefit within neuroscience research.

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Germany 1 2%
Unknown 52 96%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 11 20%
Researcher 7 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 13%
Student > Bachelor 5 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 6%
Other 10 19%
Unknown 11 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 11 20%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 15%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 6 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 6%
Psychology 3 6%
Other 8 15%
Unknown 15 28%
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