همان‌طور که در سخنان سردبیری پیشین مجله دانشگاه به آن اشاره گردید؛ کد نورمبرگ، بیانیه هلسینکی و گزارش بلمونت سه گام اساسی در تاریخچه مدرن اخلاق در پژوهش‌های سلامت هستند [3-1]. آن‌ها باعث شدند که توجه پژوهش‌گران حوزه سلامت به مسائل اخلاقی، بیش از پیش منعطف گردد. گام چهارمی که پس از آن‌ها برداشته شد، محصول کوشش مشترک  Organization of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) Council for International و سازمان بهد...

The history of the regulation of animal research is essentially the history of the emergence of meaningful social ethics for animals in society. Initially, animal ethics concerned itself solely with cruelty, but this was seen as inadequate to late 20(th)-century concerns about animal use. The new social ethic for animals was quite different, and its conceptual bases are explored in this paper. ...

Human/animal relations are potentially controversial and biotechnologically produced animals and animal-like creatures – bio-objects such as transgenics, clones, cybrids and other hybrids – have often created lively political debate since they challenge established social and moral norms. Ethical issues regarding the human/animal relations in biotechnological developments have at times been wid...

1. OECD Guidelines for the Testing of Chemicals are periodically reviewed in the light of scientific progress and animal welfare considerations. The original acute Dermal Toxicity Guideline TG 402 (1) was adopted in 1987. Development of a dermal Fixed Dose Procedure (FDP) was considered appropriate, following adoption of the revised Oral FDP, OECD Guideline 420 (2) and deletion of OECD Guidelin...

When the term “bioethics” was coined, both at its historical origin (in the works of the Lutheran pastor Jahr in 1926–27) and in its independent new birth (in the work of the American oncologist Potter in 1970), its meaning was that of a philosophical outlook in which medicine, biology, ecology and human values were brought to an integration from which the ethical imperative derived to respect ...