The May issue of The American Journal of Bioethics is now available at bioethics.net. This issue of AJOB-Neuroscience confronts some important issues about the role of animal research in understanding the human brain and clinical studies involving humans and the ethics of that research.
To read about why doing research on primates is necessary and important for stroke research and why NOT doing animal research is detrimental to science and human progress and is in fact, perhaps, unethical, read more from Sughrue and colleagues.
If you have ever wondered about the range of ethical considerations involved in treating Parkinson’s patients with cellular-based interventions, the target article addresses multiple considerations at stake in this kind of research. Duggan et al consider these and more.
To read more, including a review of Michael Gazzaniga’s book, Human, visit bioethics.net to find out more about the latest issue of AJOB Neuroscience.
Summer Johnson, PhD