Resumen de Derechos de los animales versus Investigación Biológica
José Antonio Cabezas Fernández del Campo
Since Neolithic period, humans have used domesticated animals of certain mammalian species for work in transportation, etc. Furthermore, certain trained animals are very useful as «biological reagents» for searching for hidden persons after earthquakes, the detection of chemical substances in customs controls, etc. Their use for assays in biological research, especially that related to the manufacture of pharmaceutical products, has certain problems not only as regards the suitability of the animals for such purposes but also others, derived from the ethical point of view. Professors Giráldez and Alonso Peña (whose biographies are summurized here) analyze these topics with the following approaches: What is it possible and what is it not possible to do with animals in assays for biological and pharmaceutical research? What should and should not be done with such animals for these ends?
