实验动物与比较医学 ›› 2024, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (4): 445-454.DOI: 10.12300/j.issn.1674-5817.2024.108

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动物实验伦理的三个维度:基于生命价值、动物福利和风险防范的阐析

赵勇()()   

  1. 上海实验动物研究中心, 上海 201203
  • 收稿日期:2024-07-25 修回日期:2024-08-06 出版日期:2024-09-06 发布日期:2024-08-25
  • 作者简介:赵 勇,高级工程师,上海实验动物研究中心实验动物使用和管理委员会主席、科研管理部副部长,中国实验动物学会理事,中国兽医协会理事兼实验动物专业委员会副会长,上海市实验动物学会理事兼设施与资源专业委员会主任委员。取得中国兽医协会实验动物专科医师资格,受聘为中国实验动物学会实验动物资源鉴定与评价评审专家,兼任华东师范大学应用伦理专业学位硕士研究生行业产业导师。从事上海市实验动物行政许可及行政审批的事中事后监管工作多年,对各种类型的实验动物设施具有丰富的管理经验。主持完成“实验动物设施动态氨浓度检测新技术研究”“屏障环境中实验动物质量控制哨兵动物设置方法研究”“实验动物设施与环境动态质量、运行能力的检测与评价”“生物医药研发过程中动物实验伦理原则贯彻研究”等多项省部级科研项目,发表《屏障环境“实验动物机构质量和能力的通用要求”的践行与探索》《屏障环境的哨兵动物应用设置》《动物实验伦理判定与人格特质相关性研究》等多篇实验动物管理与应用相关文章,获得多项实验动物领域相关专利。(ORCID: 0009-0009-9034-6593), E-mail: zhaoyong@slarc.org.cn

Three Dimensions of Animal Experiment Ethics: Analysis Based on Value of Life, Animal Welfare, and Risk Prevention

ZHAO Yong()()   

  1. Shanghai Laboratory Animal Research Center, Shanghai 201203, China
  • Received:2024-07-25 Revised:2024-08-06 Published:2024-08-25 Online:2024-09-06
  • Contact: ZHAO Yong (ORCID: 0009-0009-9034-6593), E-mail: zhaoyong@slarc.org.cn

摘要:

动物实验伦理审查是基于动物实验的必要性、科学性以及实验人员专业技能和科研条件等因素,对动物实验做出可为或不可为的伦理判定。由于文化传统、宗教信仰、人格特质以及在动物实验过程中分工角色等的不同,人们对待实验动物和动物实验的态度也存在较大差异。动物实验伦理如何与生命科技发展方骖并路,并始终发挥科技伦理的前瞻引导作用和底线保障功能,是需要不断探索、实践和研究的课题。目前,保障实验动物福利已成为社会普遍关注的伦理共识。但是,对待不同类别动物实验的态度和原则理念,以及在开展活体动物实验过程中如何真正有效地保证动物福利质量,则更应该纳入实验动物科技伦理管理范畴。本文基于生物技术在实验动物领域的深度应用,考量动物实验行为对科技伦理理念发展的促进作用,系统阐释了实验动物的特殊生命价值地位以及实验动物与生物安全、生态安全的关系,并列举了不同种类实验动物的福利质量评估方法,证明生命价值观的哲学思想是动物实验伦理的核心,动物实验的质量和意义决定着实验动物生命价值实现的伦理水平,动物福利技术则为动物实验提供高水平的伦理保障。伦理学理论与实验动物生命科技的紧密结合是动物实验伦理的客观要求。生命价值、动物福利与风险防范共同构成了动物实验伦理审查的核心内容,是提高动物实验伦理审查质量,避免出现伦理偏差的根本因素。

关键词: 实验动物, 伦理审查, 生命价值, 动物福利, 风险防范

Abstract:

Ethical review of animal experiments is based on factors such as the necessity of the experiment, its scientific validity, the professional competence of the experimenters, and research conditions, to determine the ethical permissibility of an animal experiment. Attitudes towards laboratory animals and animal experiments vary significantly due to differences in cultural traditions, religious beliefs, personality traits, and roles within the experimentation process. How animal experiment ethics can advance in tandem with the advancements of life sciences, while consistently providing forward-looking guidance and safeguarding fundamental ethics, is a subject that requires continuous exploration, practice, and research. Ensuring the welfare of laboratory animals has now become a widely accepted ethical consensus. However, attitudes and principles towards different types of animal experiments, and the methods to genuinely and effectively ensure the welfare quality of animals during live animal experiments, should be central to animal experiment ethics. Based on the deep integration of biotechnology in the field of laboratory animals, this paper considers the contribution of animal experimentation to the development of scientific ethical concepts. It systematically elucidates the special value of life in laboratory animals and their relationship with biosafety and ecological safety. It also outlines welfare quality assessment methods for different species of laboratory animals, demonstrating that the philosophical ideology of the value of life is the core of animal experiment ethics. The quality and significance of animal experiments determine the ethical level at which the value of life in laboratory animals is realized, and animal welfare technologies provide a robust ethical guarantee for animal experiments. The close integration of ethical theories with life sciences in laboratory animals is an objective requirement for animal experiment ethics. The value of life, animal welfare, and risk prevention collectively form the core elements of ethical review in animal experiments, serving as fundamental factors in improving the quality of ethical reviews and avoiding ethical deviations.

Key words: Laboratory animals, Ethical review, Value of life, Animal welfare, Risk prevention

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