Macquarie Philosophy Research Seminar Series Tuesday November 2 11-1 Building W6A Room 127
All welcome Animals as Patients - Preventing Human Guinea Pigs in Innovative Surgery Jane Johnson (Macquarie) Innovative surgery is vital to progress in medicine, contributing to increased longevity and enhanced quality of life, yet it is not an untainted good. Lack of regulation and inadequate data about outcomes create ethical concerns around harm to patients, compromised patient autonomy, distribution of healthcare resources and conflicts of interest. By furnishing better evidence about innovations prior to first use in humans, animal experimentation may address some of these issues but at an ethical cost of its own in terms of harms to sentient creatures and a lack of compensating benefits. What this paper seeks to test is the hypothesis that at least some of the ethical difficulties in these two areas can be addressed if a new animal as patient model is developed and adopted. _______________________________________________ SydPhil mailing list: http://sydphil.info 945 subscribers now served. To UNSUBSCRIBE, change your MEMBERSHIP OPTIONS, find ANSWERS TO COMMON PROBLEMS, or visit our ONLINE ARCHIVES, please go to the LIST INFORMATION PAGE: http://sydphil.info
