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Chapter 6 Drug scientist moralitySupposing you are one medicine scientist in factory.You need to concern these issues: How can business managers know that a new industrial process will be, or might be harmful to workers?If the workers' health problem are serious to cause they can not produce any products. Whether ought business managers get their plant build and working as soon as possible?Who should be responsible for the health problems in workers created by industrial toxins?What about problems created in people who live nearly or downwind or downriver from an industrial plant?What are the most dangerous industrial jobs today of these dangerous jobs and their health and safety risk?Can you think of any way to reduce those risks?What are the health dangers of other types of jobs today?Hence, you moral responsibility needs to know what the new industrial process caused to harmful to factory workers etc. any reasons which related to influence this factory's harmful to workers before you decide to do this investigation. Because you are one medicine scientist, you must need to know what the factors are to influence the harm to this factory's workers, then you need to decide to manufacture what kinds of medicines to reduce their harm to cause their bad health to their bodies in the future. Due to the money spending is very much, if your judgement is wrong to be recommended to manufacture any unused medicines, you will cause your organization to lose much money unfairly. You need to spend time to gather data about how many prior similar medicines are used to the plant workers can be dealt successfully. Then, you need to find what animals can be used to be tested for your new medicines invention in morality. Hence, it is your moral responsibility to your business managers and yourself.Supposing you are one scientist to carry on researching how to find one kind of drug to kill a wide of variety of disease in the laboratory. You need to find an antibiotic capable of killing a wide variety of disease producing fungi. But the killer you found had to be gentle enough to not harm the human patients it was to be used on. To find this one miracle drug, you had to test eighty different antibiotics each on thousands of dangerous fungi both in laboratory dishes and in live test animals. Do you feel that it is moral to hurt or kill any animals because you need to use these animals to test this one miracle drug's ability whether it can kill a wide variety of disease producing fungi.Your program consumed over two years of work . It involved over 3,000,000 individual tests and experiments, requires them to grow almost 1,5 million dishes of fungi, and used over 60,000 person hours of work. You hope to explore for additional medicines in the natural environment. Before, you decide to carry on researching this experiments and tests, you need to concern these issues, such as: What other noteworthy research did you conduct?How did you get your start in biochemical sciences?What is fungus?Eat regularly? Are some beneficial?Which are dangerous and cause diseases?Which diseases are fungal caused?In fact, you need to conducts exhaustive trial-and-error research, testing as many possible fungicides on as many different fungi as possible. Hence, you need have moral judgement to answer these issues, such as below: i. Animal biotechnology can generate a number of different moral concerns. Distinctions of various kinds need constantly to be drawn in order to pinpoint precisely the grounds of the moral concern and the target at which it is directed. Intrinsic and extrinsic concerns, for example, have to be carefully distinguished as they rely upon radically different forms of argument. Generalisations about the rights and wrongs of animal biotechnology as a whole are not likely to be very helpful.