An estimated 26 million animals are used for research, testing, and education in the United States each year. More than 70,000 of them are nonhuman primates. New initiatives in the United States and abroad are seeking to replace animals with alternative models for ethical and scientific reasons. The Hastings Center has organized this educational resource to help those involved and interested in biomedical research with animals better understand this changing landscape.
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Utility and Morality: Contemporary Tradeoffs
- The Moral Status of Invasive Animal Research
Bernard E. Rollin - Using Monkeys to Understand and Cure Parkinson Disease
D. Eugene Redmond, Jr. - The Utility of Basic Animal Research
Larry Carbone
Alternative Approaches: Seeds of Change
Legal and Policy Reform
- Raising the Bar: The Implications of the IOM Report on the Use of Chimpanzees in Research
Jeffrey Kahn - The Case of Phasing Out Experiments on Primates
Kathleen M. Conlee and Andrew N. Rowan - U.S. Law and Animal Experimentation: A Critical Primer
Stephen R. Latham
- The Moral Status of Invasive Animal Research