Moral Status and the Oversight of Research Involving Chimeric Animals

• DOI: 10.1002/hast.1431
• Publication Date: 2022-12-09T13:10:40Z
• Authors: Patricia Marshall; Kaitlynn P. Craig; Insoo Hyun
• Keywords: Bioethics; Animal ethics; Research Ethics; Animal testing; Human research; Animal rights

Abstract The use of nonhuman animals in research has long been a source bioethical and scientific debate. We consider the oversight chimeric research. conducted interviews with twelve members embryonic stem cell committees, nine institutional animal care fourteen scientists involved human–nonhuman‐animal different areas United States. Interviews addressed welfare conceptual issues associated moral status humanization that contain human cells. Our findings suggest concepts enhanced consciousness are not very useful part because their meanings easily defined, which presents challenges to applying Instead, committee we interviewed seemed rely on standard assessments changes when focusing ethics human‐animal .