RT Article
T1 Islamic Bioethics and Animal Research: The Case of Iran
JF Journal of religious ethics
VO 45
IS 3
SP 562
OP 578
A1 Tappan, Robert
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2017
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1580232930
AB Despite growing interest in Islamic bioethics, little work has been done on research ethics in Islam, and even less on animal research ethics. This essay explores religious and scientific insights into the lives of animals used as research subjects, particularly in Iran. The inner lives of animals and their relationship to their Creator as relayed by the Qur'an, ethological research on animal minds, and neuroethical reflection on painience (the ability to feel and process pain as noxious [injurious] and explicitly hurtful) are brought together to question the current, relatively unrestricted use of research animals in Iran. The essay concludes that Islamic sources and the desire of Iranian clinicians to treat laboratory animals in line with them could poise Muslims to take the lead in developing alternatives to animal research. Further, recent suggestions that human and animal research guidelines and protections should be brought closer together are examined in light of these findings.
K1 Iran
K1 Islam
K1 Shiite
K1 Animals
K1 Bioethics
K1 research ethics
DO 10.1111/jore.12190