Bioética na Pesquisa Engenharia Biomédica: diminuição do uso de animais em experimentos científicos

• Autor(a) principal: Fonseca, Marcos Augusto M
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Luz, Glécia V.S., Santos, Paulo R, Viveiros, Cássia C.M., Rosa, Suélia R.F.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Interdisciplinar de Pesquisa em Engenharia
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/ripe/article/view/13448
• topic: Animal experimentation. bioethics. animal welfare. research ethics. Biomedical engineering.; Experimentação animal. bioética. bem-estar animal. ética em pesquisa. engenharia biomédica.

Research activities using animals have been carried out since antiquity, animal welfare was not a priority. With the evolution of research, there was also a growing concern about ethics and methods that could replace the use of animal guinea pigs in scientific experiments. Such awareness began to manifest itself in the early nineteenth century in England with the emergence of movements that were dedicated to changing man's attitudes towards animals. Since then, activists have argued that alternative methods are capable of replacing the use of animals in research, and, therefore, the use of living beings is considered obsolete. On the other hand, some scientists argue that experimentation is the fruit of research. The present work presents a survey of dissertations and theses defended at the Institute of Biology of the University of Brasília in the year 2017 that carried out in vitro and in vivo tests, besides bringing a reflection on the subject and aims to highlight the advantages of the use of alternative methods. For this study, articles and dissertations of the CAPES and PubMed databases were used, as well as other references present in them. It was concluded that, although there is not enough technology to eradicate the use of animals in experiments, there are several alternative methods that do not compromise the study.