The Human Use of Animals: Case Studies in Ethical Choice - Couverture rigide

Orlans, F. Barbara

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 019511907X ISBN 13 : 9780195119077

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1998

Synopsis

The first set of case studies on animal use, this volume offers a thorough, up-to-date exploration of the moral issues related to animal welfare. Its main purpose is to examine how far it is ethically justifiable to harm animals in order to benefit mankind. An excellent introduction provides a framework for the cases and sets the background of philosophical and moral concepts underlying the subject.

Sixteen original, previously unpublished essays cover controversies associated with the human use of animals in a broad range of contexts, including biomedical, behavioral, and wildlife research, cosmetic safety testing, education, the food industry, commerce, and animal use as pets and in religious practices. Scientific research is accorded the closest scrutiny. The authors represent a wide range of expertise within their specialized areas of research--physiology, public policy, ethics, philosophy, law, veterinary science, and psychology. The careful analysis of each case makes it possible to elevate the discourse beyond over-simplified positions, and to demonstrate the complexity of the issues. The Human Use of Animals will be welcomed by students and faculty in law, philosophy, ethics, public policy, religion, medicine, and veterinary medicine. It will also interest activists in the animal protection movement, and members of animal protection organizations and Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Human Use of Animals reports the facts about some of the most compelling and difficult issues about animal welfare that confront society today. Fully revised and with four new chapters, the 16 case studies in the present volume explore a variety of controversies about the human uses of animals that have emerged over the last 40 years or so. The book begins with a lengthy exploration of applicable ethical theory. It then presents the facts of the 16 cases, followed in each case by analysis of pertinent theoretical and practical ethical issues. This volume offers a discussion of controversies within a range of contexts that includes biomedical, behavioural, and wildlife research, cosmetic safety testing, education, entertainment (zoos and circuses), the food industry, commerce, companion animals and animal uses in religious practices.

Biographie de l'auteur

Tom Beauchamp is a Professor and Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. F. Barbara Orlans is a Senior Research Fellow at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. Rebecca Dresser is Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law and Professor of Ethics in Medicine at Washington University. david Morton is a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Science and Ethics at The Medical School, University of Birmingham. John Gluck is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at the University of New Mexico.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 019511907X
• ISBN 13: 9780195119077
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible