Ethics, Space, and Somatic Sensibilities: Comparing Relationships between Scientific Researchers and Their Human and Animal Experimental Subjects

• DOI: 10.1068/d17109
• Publication Date: 2011-02-02T14:50:11Z
• Authors: Beth Greenhough; Emma Roe
• Keywords: Bioethics; Affect; Non-human

Drawing on geographies of affect and nature - society relations, we propose a radical rethinking how scientists, social regulatory agencies conceptualise human animal participants in scientific research. The rationale for using bodies to simulate what could be done emphasises shared somatic capacities that generate comparable responses clinical interventions. At the same time, guidelines care practices stress differences between subjects. In this paper consider implications differentiation ethical welfare protocols practices. We show bioethical debates around use subjects tend focus issues consent language, while recent work reflects an increasing affectual dimensions practice. argue attention more-than-representational ethics might equally important assert paying these sensibilities can offer insights into experimental environments both facilitate restrict development more care-full response-able relations researchers their