{"id":3264,"date":"2019-06-01T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transcience.fr\/standardizing-the-unthinkable-the-ethics-of-using-animals-in-experimental-procedures\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T13:47:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T11:47:54","slug":"standardizing-the-unthinkable-the-ethics-of-using-animals-in-experimental-procedures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transcience.fr\/en\/standardizing-the-unthinkable-the-ethics-of-using-animals-in-experimental-procedures\/","title":{"rendered":"Normalizing the unthinkable: The Ethics of using animals in research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics Working Group Report, 2015 : <a href=\"https:\/\/transcience.ovh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Normalising-the-Unthinkable-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>This report is produced by the Oxford Center for Animal Ethics, which was founded in 2006 to pave the way for ethical perspectives on animals through university teaching, research and publications. 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The report was written by a working group of twenty academics from six countries.   <\/p>\n\n<p>Drawing on knowledge gathered from a variety of disciplines, this report raises the ethical question in relation to animal experimentation, not only by examining the procedures themselves, but also by addressing issues such as the history of animal experimentation, its scientific validity, its philosophy, its institutionalization, and so-called controls, legislation, regulation, inspection, licensing and regulation.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics Working Group Report, 2015 : Download here This report is produced by the Oxford Center for Animal Ethics, which was founded in 2006 to pave&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,86],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-other-reports-notes-and-expert-opinions","8":"category-resources"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Normalizing the unthinkable: The Ethics of using animals in research &#8211; 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