Como os pesquisadores da UNESP-Botucatu concebem a ética na experimentação animal?: consciência ou obediência?

• Autor(a) principal: Bertti, Gabriela
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Pereira Júnior, Alfredo [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://www.ibb.unesp.br/#!/departamentos/educacao/publicacoes-e-produtos-academicos/simbio-logias/revistas/; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/140677
• topic: Bioethics; Scientific research; Animal experimentation; Guinea pigs; Awareness; Laws; Bioética; Pesquisa; Cobaias; Consciência; Leis

Currently there is a consensus that researchers are more aware in relation to dealing with guinea pigs and animal welfare, while ethics committees are intensifying the inspection of laboratories. There are also laws about the treatment of animals used for experimentation that has punitions, from cash fines to removal from the position of a research scientist. We investigated researchers by means of a questionnaire, to know if they are more aware of animal welfare, or just obey guidelines of ethics committees to have their projects approved. We notice significant differences between before and after the approval of Law 11.794/08 establishing ethics committees. The new generation of researchers displays more systematization of ethical procedures in dealing with the animals, while the old generations rethought their procedures. With regard to animal welfare, we note that the latter only obey the law, and that if the same had not been created they would not make changes in their labs.