F. Barbara Orlans / Tom L. Beauchamp / Rebecca Dresser / David B. Morton / John P. Gluck

The Human Use of Animals

Case Studies in Ethical Choice
Herausgeber: Dresser, Rebecca; Orlans, F. Barbara; Gluck, John P. Jr.

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Sixteen original, previously unpublished essays cover controversies associated with the human use of animals in a broad range of contexts, including biomedical, behavioral, and wildlife research,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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 559g
• ISBN-13: 9780195119084
• ISBN-10: 0195119088
• Artikelnr.: 21575770

Autorenporträt

F. Barbara Orlans, Ph.D., is Senior Research Fellow at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Tom L. Beauchamp, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy and Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. Rebecca Dresser, J.D., holds a joint appointment as Professor in the School of Law and the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. David B. Morton, B.V.Sc., Ph.D., M.R.C.V.S., is Professor of Biomedical Science and Biomedical Ethics at the University of Birmingham, England. John P. Gluck, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM.

Inhaltsangabe

I. Introduction
1: Moral Issues About Animals
II. Biomedical Research
2: Baboon-Human Liver Transplants: The Pittsburgh Case
3: Head Injury Experiments on Primates at the University of Pennsylvania
4: Patenting Animals: The Harvard "Oncomouse"
5: What Does the Public Have a Right to Know?
III. Cosmetic Safety Testing
6: Beauty Without the Beast
IV. Behavioral Research
7: Apes and Language: Washoe and Her Successors
8: Can Animal Aggression be Studied in an Ethical Manner?
9: Monkeys Without Mothers
V. Wildlife Research
10: The Death of a Vagrant Bird
VI. Educational Teaching
11: Dissection of Frogs: The Jennifer Graham Case
VII. Food and Farming
12: Force-Feeding of Geese
13: Veal Crates and Human Palates
14: Fowl Deeds
VIII. Companion Animals
15: Should the Tail Wag the Dog?
16: From Where Should Research Scientists Get their Dogs?
IX. Religious Rites
17: Animal Sacrifice as Religious Ritual: The Santeria Case