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Use of Animals in Experiments in Brazil: Cultural, Scientific Practices and New Ethics for the 21st Century / Uso de animais em experimentos no Brasil: práticas culturais, científicas e nova ética para o século XXI
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ABSTRACT
From 2018 to 2021, 895 research institutions in Brazil registered at the National Council for the Control of Animal Experiments, Concea, were authorized to use more than 16 million animals in experiments. This historical series is published for the first time and the data were obtained through a Brazilian law known as the Information Access Law (LAI). The purpose of this text is to review the literature and problematize access to data on the use of animals as a fundamental condition to change the paradigm in experimental science in the construction of a world with fewer deaths. The article reconstructs the cultural bases and scientific practices that influenced ethics about animals, especially their use in laboratories. At the same time, it indicates that, since antiquity, there were already thoughts that animals should be treated with dignity and humanity. The text presents the emergence of alternative methods in the late 1950s and questions the role of ethics committees in reducing the use of animals in laboratories.
RESUMO
De 2018 a 2021, 895 instituições de pesquisas no Brasil cadastradas no Conselho Nacional de Controle de Experimentação Animal, o Concea, tiveram a autorização para utilizar mais de 16 milhões de animais em experimentos. A série histórica está sendo publicada com ineditismo por este artigo e os dados foram conseguidos por meio da Lei de Acesso à Informação, a LAI. A proposta desse texto é problematizar o acesso aos dados do uso de animais como condição fundamental para mudar o paradigma na ciência experimental na construção de um mundo com menos mortes. O artigo reconstitui, historicamente, as bases culturais e práticas científicas que influenciaram a ética em relação aos animais, em especial ao uso desses em laboratórios. Ao mesmo tempo, indica que, desde a antiguidade, já existiam pensamentos de que os animais deveriam ser tratados com dignidade e humanidade. O texto apresenta a emergência dos métodos alternativos ao uso de animais a partir do final dos anos 50 e questiona o papel dos comitês de ética para a diminuição do uso de cobaias nos laboratórios.
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Ethical aspects
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South America
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Brazil
Language:
Portuguese
Year:
2023
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Preprint