Tag: Rebecca L. Walker

Rebecca Walker’s new book, Of Mice and Primates: Virtue Ethics and Animal Research, is out now from Oxford University Press. The ethics of research on animals has historically been viewed through the lens of welfare, and whether animals have rights. Is the pain and distress experienced by animals worth the...

Rebecca L. Walker is the author of chapter 41, “Physicians and Punishment: Ethics beyond oaths and codes” in The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Punishment, ed. Jesper Ryberg. Abstract: Despite orientation to goals that are in deep tension, medicine and state-sanctioned punishment have long cooperated. Involvement of physicians in...

In the AMA Journal of Ethics, Rebecca Walker shares a case and commentary on nonhuman animals used in human-centered science. The article “considers the ethical tension” between justifications for using nonhuman animals in research that benefits humans. Importantly, the commentary also suggests the importance of extending reasoning “beyond governning regulations...