Compassion for animals in the laboratory: impairment or refinement of research methodology?
There are now signs in the United States as well as in Europe that the importance of a positive human-nonhuman animal relationship in research laboratories is appreciated more seriously. In addition to knowledge and skills, primary attributes of animal research personnel must be feelings of compassion and sensitivity toward animals to safeguard the reliability of scientific research data.
Reinhardt
Viktor
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Animal Welfare Institute, Washington, D.C., USA. viktorawi@siskiyou.net
D000827:Animal Welfare; D000818:Animals; D000830:Animals, Laboratory; D006801:Humans; D012106:Research