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

Beauchamp, Tom L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195340191 ISBN 13 : 9780195340198

Editeur : Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

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.

Revue de presse

'...this book must be essential reading for anyone involved in amking these decisions.' (Paul Townsend Laboratory Animals (1999) 33.)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, USA
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0195340191
• ISBN 13: 9780195340198
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 287