APA Code Of Ethics Essay

Dissections, surgeries, medical interventions, are means to allow a person to gain the best health that they can. However, to ensure that the health of humans are met, animals suffer as a consequence. For the well-being of humans in the present time or the future, animals are brought in harms way. It is not justifiable to allow more extreme research procedures to be permitted on animals when they would be considered unethical if done to humans. There should not be a separate code of ethics applied to human and animal research.

Experimentations on animals can cause various types of pains. In the APA code of ethics, it states that animals should be treated as humanely as possible, unless there is no other way (Bayard, 229). However, this goal should be justified by the “prospective scientific. Educational, or applied value” (Bayard, 229).There is a distinction made between humans and animals when humans are registered under the animal domaine. Homo sapiens are not any better than any other species, and it is not fair, that the other species have to suffer at the expense of potentially benefitting another species.

However, psychologists tend to attribute animals feelings as them reacting to the pain
Yes, there are times when animal testing has lead to discoveries, such as insulin. However, there are times that the discovery of medical interventions that were in fact tested on animals lead to many defects and disabilities in human fetuses. Thalidomide was tested in various species of animals and was accepted to be provided to mothers with morning sickness to relieve them of the nausea (Bowd, 206). But, it had the opposite affect instead resulting in various deformities within the unborn and born children (Annas, 99). Therefore, the harming of the animals brought no benefits towards the human specifics yet had caused harm to the animals, and the Homo