Doctoral Dissertation Research: Ethical Issues in Animal Experimentation

在Harriet Ritvo教授的指导下，博士生Shira Shmuely将研究动物实验的法律法规如何影响科学，以及关于动物感知的科学知识如何影响这些法律法规。coPI将研究人文价值如何转化为管理动物福利的法律，以及这些法律的执行机制。她的重点是功利主义的伦理立场如何在伦理演算中利用科学，作为关于身体功能的专业知识的主要模式。除了论文的结果，这项研究将有助于正在进行的关于动物福利的辩论，并阐明生命科学和生物技术研究中的伦理问题。

Under the supervision of Prof. Harriet Ritvo, Ph.D. student Shira Shmuely will examine the ways the legal regulation of animal experimentation has shaped science and, reciprocally, how scientific knowledge about animal sentience has shaped those legal regulations. The coPI will examine how humanistic values have been translated into laws governing animal welfare and the mechanisms by which such laws have been administered. Her focus is on how the ethical standpoint of utilitarianism utilizes science in the ethical calculus, as the primary mode of expertise about somatic function.In addition to resulting in a dissertation, this research will contribute to ongoing debates about animal welfare, and illuminate ethical issues in the life sciences and biotechnological research.