Animal ethics for veterinarians

Linzey, Andrew, (editor.). Linzey, Clair (editor.).

Summary: This book is drawn from articles originally published in the Journal of Animal Ethics (JAE). Essays in the first section discuss aspects of veterinary oaths, how advances in animal cognition science factor into current ethical debates, and the rise of complementary and alternative veterinary medicine and its relationship to traditional veterinary medicine. The second section continues with an essay that addresses why veterinarians have an obligation to educate animal caregivers to look past 'cuteness' in order to treat all animals with dignity. The collection closes with three short sections focusing on animals in farming, trade, and research "areas where veterinarians encounter conflicts between their job and their duty to advocate and care for animals.

Record details

ISBN: 0252083199
ISBN: 9780252083198
ISBN: 0252050207
ISBN: 9780252050206
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Publisher: Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, [2017]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: Veterinarians and Animal Ethics; Professional Issues for Veterinarians; 1. An Ethical Oath for Veterinarians; 2. The Emergence of Veterinary Oaths: Social, Historical, and Ethical Considerations; 3. Cognitive Relatives yet Moral Strangers?; 4. Opening the Door: Non-veterinarians and the Practice of Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine; Understanding Cruelty to Companion Animals; 5. An Evaluative Review of Theories Related to Animal Cruelty; 6. Risk Factors for the Development of Animal Cruelty.; 7. The Neoteny Barrier: Seeking Respect for the Non-Cute Animal Farming; 8. "Pets or Meat"? Ethics and Domestic Animals; 9. Varieties of Harm to Animals in Industrial Farming; 10. Old McDonald's Had a Farm: The Metaphysics of Factory Farming; Trade in Animals; 11. Australia and Live Animal Export: Wronging Nonhuman Animals; 12. The Morality of the Reptile "Pet" Trade; Animals in Research; 13. Transgenic Animals, Biomedical Experiments, and "Progress"; 14. Raising the Bar in the Justification of Animal Research.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.