Arluke A
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
Occup Med. 1999 Apr-Jun;14(2):305-16.
Four aspects of animal experimentation cause uneasiness among many animal laboratory technicians. First, if technicians form strong attachments to lab animals, they feel conflict between their nurturing and the experimental manipulations they perform. Most technicians learn to curtail these attachments. Second, the "sacrifice" of lab animals becomes routinized and stripped of special meaning for many technicians, making killing uncomfortably rote. Third, technicians sometimes encounter outsiders who are critical of animal experimentation and ridicule the technicians for doing this work. Most technicians avoid telling outsiders about their work or take an educational approach to deal with these awkward encounters. Finally, most technicians report some ethical uneasiness about certain types of experiments and their clinical value, as well as about the use of certain animals, and they feel they cannot turn to investigators or fellow technicians to pursue such issues.
动物实验的四个方面让许多动物实验室技术人员感到不安。首先，如果技术人员与实验动物建立了深厚的感情，他们会在悉心照料动物与自己所进行的实验操作之间感到矛盾。大多数技术人员学会了克制这种感情。其次，对许多技术人员来说，实验动物的“牺牲”变得司空见惯，失去了特殊意义，使得杀戮成了令人不安的机械行为。第三，技术人员有时会遇到批评动物实验并嘲笑他们从事这项工作的外人。大多数技术人员避免向外人透露自己的工作，或者采取教育的方式来应对这些尴尬的遭遇。最后，大多数技术人员表示，对于某些类型的实验及其临床价值，以及某些动物的使用，他们在伦理上感到有些不安，而且他们觉得无法向研究人员或同行技术人员探讨这些问题。
