Articles for Research Paper

1.  The ethics of animal research: Talking Point on the use of animals in scientific research
This article introduces the ongoing debate amongst supporters of animal research and animal-rights extremists and anti-vivisectionists over the ethics of using animals in scientific research. It describes the benefits of animal research in public health and medical research. It also explains certain laws in conducting animal research as well as the movement to reduce, refine, and possibly replace animal research.
http://www.nature.com/embor/journal/v8/n6/full/7400993.html

2. The Regulation of Animal Research and the Emergence of Animal Ethics: A Conceptual History
This article outlines the history of the regulation of animal research. Essentially the article lays out the history of the ethical debate over animal research. It focuses on the Animal Welfare Act of 1966 and how the regulations changed over the years.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/771m854192497482/

3. The Benefits and Ethics of Animal Research
This pdf page contains several articles by various authors about the benefits and ethics of animal experimentation. A short article introduces the topic of animal research and the ongoing debate. The second article opposes the use of animals in research while the third article supports animal research due to its important role in medical research. The last article describes the history of animal research.
http://www.indiana.edu/~acoustic/s685/Rowan-1997.pdf 

4. The Ethics of Animal Research: What Are the Prospects for Agreement?
This article focuses on the ethics of using animals in biomedical research as this issue seems to be the most heated argument (according to the author). The author of the article neatly outlines the points of agreement and disagreement between the supporters and non-supporters of animal research. The article concludes with the author's view on how the opposing sides should begin to compromise based off of the points they both agree upon.
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=46377

5.  The Ethics of Animal Research: A UK Perspective
This article focuses on the debate over animal research in the UK, where many animal-rights activists have spoken out against the issue. It focuses on four major points of issue concerning this topic: assessing pain, distress, and suffering in animals; does animal research lead to valid results?; is it morally acceptable to cause pain and suffering to animals?; can we ever agree on research involving animals?
http://dels-old.nas.edu/ilar_n/ilarjournal/48_1/pdfs/4801Perry.pdf  

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1605074
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2923.1994.tb02729.x/full
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