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Animal Research Essay Resources 2013 Animal research essay resources 2013 Animal Research Essay Resources (Manage) and AO2 (Use Resources) assessment objectives of their EPQ. Click on one of the links below for resources on the specific area of interest surrounding the AO1 requires students to identify their topic and issue of animal testing: the project’s aims and objectives. They must then produce a project plan and complete their History of animal research work, applying organisational skills and Ethics of animal experiments strategies to meet stated objectives. This page Costs and benefits of research aims to help students get a handle on the topic Regulatory systems and the 3Rs of animal research and provide some inspiration Animal rights activism and extremism for possible areas of further study. General Websites AO2 requires students to obtain, and select Many students, from primary school to from, a variety of resources, analyse and apply university, write assignments that relate to the this data in a relevant manner and demonstrate issue of animal research. This page aims to an understanding of appropriate links. This page support this by providing links to useful will provide links to large amounts of relevant materials. It is especially useful to any students information that students can use for their carrying out the Extended Project Qualification project, however it remains up to students to (EPQ) alongside their A-levels or Extended Essay critically analyse and apply it to their specific as part of their International Baccalaureate project focus. studies. Those students should read the section below. History of animal research Beneath each link is a Harvard Reference for the The use of animals in scientific experiments in book, webpage or document in question which the UK can be traced back at least as far as the can be used in the footnotes or endnotes of 17th Century with Harvey’s experiments on your project paper. For online resources it is numerous animal species aiming to demonstrate common practice to add the date you accessed blood circulation. Across Europe, the use of the resource in square brackets at the end e.g. animals in scientific research began to expand over the 19th Century, in part supported by the Cressey, D., 2011. Animal Research: Battle Scars. development of anaesthetics which had Nature. [online] 23 February. Available at: previously made animal research impossible. In <http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110223/f 1876, parliament passed the Cruelty to Animals ull/470452a.html> [Accessed: 6 February 2013] Act, the first legislation aimed at regulating animal experiments. Extended project qualification (EPQ) Over the late 19th and the 20th centuries, the Many students carry out their EPQ on the expansion of medical science meant that the subject of animal research or animal testing. numbers of animals used in research expanded This page aims to help students find resources steadily, accelerated by the Medicines Act, 1968, which are relevant to their project. which provided a clearer guide to the use of animals in safety testing in the wake of the It is important for students to discuss their Thalidomide tragedy. The number of animals project with their project supervisor as many of used rose to over 5.5 million in 1970 after which the marks are contingent on this process. This point the numbers began to decline rapidly. This page is aimed at helping students with the AO1 large expansion reflected a growing medical Understanding Animal Research, Hodgkin Huxley House, 30 Farringdon Lane, London, EC1R 3AW www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk 020 3675 1230 [email protected] Animal research essay resources 2013 field; animals had played a part in most medical The Animal Research Timeline (AR.info) advances of the 20th century including insulin, provides an outline of many of the major the polio vaccine, penicillin and the elimination medical discoveries since 1881, as well as of smallpox. In 1986 the Animals (Scientific explaining the role of animals in each of these Procedures) Act was passed, which ensured developments. higher animal welfare standards in laboratories - AnimalResearch.Info. Timeline. [online]. across the UK. Available at: http://www.animalresearch.info/en/medical- In 2010, EU Directive 2010/63 was passed. This advances/timeline/ regulation harmonises European animal laboratory standards, improving animal welfare Animal Research Info: Nobel Prizes (AR.info) across the EU, and is currently being transposed provides a breakdown of all the Nobel Prizes in into the laws of the member countries. It passed Physiology and Medicine since 1901 and into UK law on 1st January 2013. includes how animals were involved in the discoveries. Books - AnimalResearch.Info. Nobel Prizes. [online]. Available at: Animal Research in Medicine: 100 Years of http://www.animalresearch.info/en/medical- Politics, Protests and Progress (John Illman) advances/nobel-prizes/ provides a history of animal research legislation and the context in which they were developed. The Animals (UAR) provides information about - Illman, J., 2008. Aninmal Research in Medicine: the number and type of animals used in medical 100 years of Politics, Protests and Progress. The research. Look at how the number of animals in Story of the Research Defence Society. London: research has risen and fallen over time in the Research Defence Society. Number of Animals section. - Understanding Animal Research. The Animals. A Guinea Pig’s History of Biology (Jim Endersby) [online]. Available at: tells the story of modern biology through the http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.u stories of the animals and plants that made it k/the-animals/ possible. - Endersby, J., 2007. A Guinea Pig’s History of Pro-Test: Tackling Animal Rights (SR) is an essay Biology. Heinemann. following the battle over the building of the Oxford University Biomedical Facility from 2005- Online resources 2008. It covers the rise of the animal rights group SPEAK, and the student counter- Medical Advances and Animal Research (RDS & movement, Pro-Test. It also covers some of the CMP) is an excellent booklet outlining the role of issues which helped change public opinion from animals in many of the medical developments 2006. we see around us. It provides full references to - Speaking of Research, 2008. Pro-Test Tackling the scientific literature it mentions throughout. Animal Rights in the UK. [online]. Available at: - Research Defence Society & Coalition for http://speakingofresearch.com/about/the-uk- Medical Progress, 2007. Medical Advances and experience/ Animal Research: The Contribution of Animal Science to the Medical Revolution: Some Case Histories. London: RDS. [online] Available at: http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.u k/media-library/download/document/64/ Understanding Animal Research, Hodgkin Huxley House, 30 Farringdon Lane, London, EC1R 3AW www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk 020 3675 1230 [email protected] Animal research essay resources 2013 The ethics of animal research - Hills, A., 2005. Do Animals Have Rights? Cambridge: Icon Books. Animal use has been a hotly contested moral issue for hundreds of years. In the 17th century The Case for Animal Rights (Tom Reagan) is René Descartes, a French philosopher, argued another major piece of philosophical writing that animals were no more than automata and which argues for animal rights on the basis of could not feel pain. This was rejected by Jeremy their similar cognitive abilities. Bentham in the 18th Century who extended his - Reagan, T., 1983. The Case for Animal Rights. utilitarian conception of rights to animals due to Berkeley: University of California Press. their capability to suffer. This was expanded by Peter Singer, in 1975, who wrote in Animal A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy (Wesley J Smith) Liberation that arbitrarily treating humans takes its title from a quote from PETA president, above animals – particularly in marginal cases Ingrid Newkirk. It is a useful book covering many where animals may be as intelligent as young issues of animal rights activism and philosophy. children or severely cognitively-impaired adults In Chapter 18, Smith creates his argument in – was not justified. favour of animal research on the basis of human rights and duties. Animal rights philosophy is distinct from - Smith, W.J., 2009. A rat is a pig is a dog is a proponents of animal welfare who argue that boy. New York: Encounter Books. we must provide adequate conditions for animals in our care – a position held by the The Human Use of Animals: Case Studies in RSPCA among others. The scientific community Ethical Choice (Beauchamp et al.) investigates a has often been the driving force for these number of difficult issues regarding the use of improvements, arguing that better conditions animals in society. Through 16 case studies, and for animals was conducive to better, more plenty of ethical theory, the authors attempt to replicable, scientific results. navigate the moral minefields involved. - Beauchamp, T.L., Orlans, F.B., & Dresser, R. Books Morton D. and Gluck J. 2008. The Human Use of Animals: Case Studies in Ethical Choice. 2nd ed. Animal Liberation (Peter Singer) was an New York: Oxford University Press. immensely influential book which discussed the ethics of animal use (including animal research). An Odyssey with Animals (Adrian Morrison) It is often considered the forerunner to the investigates the relationship between humans animal liberation movement. This is, perhaps, and animals, and explains why efforts to halt the core piece of literature on animal rights animal research would be damaging to human philosophy. health. - Singer, P., 1995. Animal Liberation. 2nd Ed. - Morrison, A., 2009. An Odyssey with Animals. London: Pimlico. New York: Oxford University Press Do Animals Have Rights? (Alison Hills) is an Online resources objective assessment of the case for whether animals should have rights and what rights those Ethics (Pro-Test) looks at the question of should be. Hills discusses their ability of mind, whether animals have rights, concluding that whether all animals should be regarded as their lack of understanding does not allow them equal, and what that means.
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