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Should Protections for Research With Humans Who Cannot Consent Apply to Research With Nonhuman Primates?
This paper considers how and why current protections for research with humans who cannot consent (such as children and those with severe dementia) can apply to nonhuman primates. Navigating the slippery and often contentious questions around moral significance of nonhuman animals, the author gives compelling examples of research projects where using nonhuman primates would be clearly unacceptable. These are then used as a baseline for determining a general principle that "individuals who are unable to consent should be enrolled in nonbeneficial research only when, at the very least, there is sufficient reason to believe that the potential benefits of the research justify the risks it poses." Though the author does not make claims around what might constitute justifiable benefits, he does offer interesting possibilities for how nonhuman primates can assent / dissent from particular research, even if they cannot officially "consent." READ MORE

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Lessons Learned: Challenges in Applying Current Constraints on Research on Chimpanzees to Other Animals
In 2011, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on the Necessity of the Use of Chimpanzees in Biomedical and Behavioral Research, was charged with determining the scientific necessity of the chimpanzee as a human model for biomedical and behavioral research. In his article, committee chair Jeffrey Kahn states that despite this charge, the issue of necessity simply could not be completely separated from ethics. Ethical considerations informed all of the central recommendations of the committee, from their insistence that chimps be housed in “ethologically appropriate environments” to their acknowledgement that chimps have the cognitive capacity to express their willingness (and unwillingness) to submit to research procedures. READ MORE
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