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ArticleThe New bioethics : a multidisciplinary journal of biotechnology and the body2022

The sentience shift in animal research.

Heather Browning, Walter Veit

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Article in The New bioethics : a multidisciplinary journal of biotechnology and the body, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
7.4field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Optimism about Measuring Animal Feelings.Asian bioethics review · 2023
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  9. Research Animal Behavioral Management Programs for the 21st Century.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Heather BrowningLondon School of Economics, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1554-7052
Walter VeitSchool of History and Philosophy of Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-7701-8995
London School of Economics and Political Science · GBThe University of Sydney · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

One of the primary concerns in animal research is ensuring the welfare of laboratory animals. Modern views on animal welfare emphasize the role of animal sentience, i.e. the capacity to experience subjective states such as pleasure or suffering, as a central component of welfare. The increasing official recognition of animal sentience has had large effects on laboratory animal research. The

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Animal ExperimentationAnimalsAnimal WelfareConsciousnessEuropean UnionMammalsanimal legislationanimal researchAnimal welfaresentience

Identifiers

PMID35611570
PMCPMC9704368
OpenAlexW4281486755

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