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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Preface to the First Edition | |
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| Theory | |
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| Social, Personal, and Professional Ethics | |
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| Ethics[subscript 1] and Ethics[subscript 2] | |
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| Ethical Vectors in Veterinary Medicine | |
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| The Anatomy of Ethical Decision Making | |
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| The Nature of Ethical Theory | |
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| Effecting Ethical Change | |
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| The Fundamental Question of Veterinary Ethics | |
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| New Patterns of Animal Use | |
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| Articulating a New Ethic for Animals | |
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| Veterinarians and the New Social Ethic for Animals | |
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| How Veterinary Medicine Should Respond to the New Ethic: The Case of Animal Research | |
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| Veterinarians and Farm Animal Welfare | |
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| Recent Progress | |
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| Veterinarians and Companion Animal Welfare | |
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| Subtle Advantages of Pursuing Companion Animal Welfare | |
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| The Changing Role of Companion Animals and Their Value | |
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| Pain in Veterinary (and Human) Scientific Medicine | |
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| Animal Distress and Animal Happiness | |
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| The Ethics of Critical Care | |
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| Aesculapian Authority in Veterinary Medicine | |
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| The Ethics of Alternative Medicine | |
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| Cases | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Cow with Cancer Eye | |
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| Substandard Husbandry for Sheep | |
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| Fracture Fixation | |
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| Farmer Using Illegal Growth Promotant | |
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| Client Sells Known BVD Shedders | |
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| Client Requests Dog Euthanasia Because She Is Moving | |
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| Farmer Requests a Fetotomy | |
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| Suspected Dogfighting | |
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| Docking and Cropping of Dobermans | |
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| Leaving a Sow Untreated | |
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| Euthanasia of Cat Who Sprays | |
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| Euthanasia of Treatable Horse for Insurance | |
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| Euthanasia of Grieving Dog | |
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| Supernumerary Teat Removal | |
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| Breeder Seeking Euthanasia for Puppy with Overbite | |
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| Veterinary Anatomist Spaying Farm Cats | |
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| Breeder Asking for Anesthetics So She Can Crop Ears | |
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| Penicillin Residue in Milk | |
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| Marketing Heartworm Regimen | |
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| Dairy Farmers Using Unauthorized Feed Additive Prescribed by a Veterinarian | |
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| Veterinarian's Responsibility When a Dog Is Suspected to Be Overly Aggressive | |
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| Painful Research Designed without Analgesia | |
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| Clients Who Insist on Continuing Treatment for Failing Cancer Dog | |
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| Tail Docking in Dairy Cattle | |
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| Killing of Neonatal Buck Kids | |
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| Veterinarian Discovers Violations in Religious Slaughter | |
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| Using Information about Alternative Surgical Training in Hiring | |
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| Pig Farmer Asking for Euthanasia Solution | |
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| Feeding Kittens to Snakes | |
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| Veterinarian Seeking Maternity Leave | |
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| Surgical Procedures Performed by a Technician | |
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| Veterinary Liaison with Pet Store Chain Providing Poor Animal Care | |
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| Freeze-Firing Racehorses | |
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| Performing Cat Castration on the Farm | |
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| Irresponsible Veterinarian-Breeder | |
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| Annual Rabies Vaccination | |
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| Government Policy Regarding Export of Breeding Swine | |
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| Improperly Labeled Prescriptions Swallowed by Child | |
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| Referral Practice "Stealing" Clients | |
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| Confidentiality and a Breeder Perpetuating a Line of Dogs with Seizures | |
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| Should Veterinarians Be Required to Report Animal Abuse? | |
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| Two Cases of Found Dogs | |
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| Should a Biting Dog Be Adopted Out? | |
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| Euthanizing Sick Animals without Their Owner's Permission | |
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| Partner's Misdiagnosis | |
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| Heavy Metal Toxicosis and Slaughter for Food | |
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| Conflict of Interest | |
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| Rabies Vaccine for Livestock | |
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| Female Veterinarian Receiving Unwelcome Attention | |
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| Female Veterinarian Offended by Colleagues' Humor | |
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| Client Refuses Euthanasia for Sick Cat | |
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| Should Veterinarians Prescribe Drugs to Increase Productivity? | |
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| Previous Practitioner Leaves Sponge in Dog's Peritoneum | |
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| Illicit Importation of Boar Semen | |
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| Misreading of Radiograph | |
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| Cattery Serving as Source of FIP | |
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| Injured, Unowned Animal | |
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| Writing Prescriptions for Branded Drugs in Return for Financial Incentive | |
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| Negligence of an Emergency Clinician in Treating Trauma | |
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| Poor Air Quality in Swine Barn | |
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| Supplementing Income with Prescription Drugs | |
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| Client's Request to Euthanize His Dog after His Death | |
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| Confidentiality and an Employee's History of Drug Abuse | |
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| Convenience Euthanasia of a Dog without Proper Permission | |
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| Veterinarian Who Ignores Roundworms in Puppies | |
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| Stray Tattooed Beagle | |
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| Prescribing and Selling Pharmaceuticals | |
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| Suspected Poisoning | |
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| Euthanasia of Research Animal without Researcher's Permission | |
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| Anorexic Client Not Feeding Her Dog | |
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| Improving Rural Euthanasia | |
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| Second Commentary on Stray Tattooed Beagle | |
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| Bull Mastiff with Osteosarcoma | |
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| Financially Stressed Client and Annual Physical | |
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| Botched Caesarean Section | |
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| Farmer Asking Advice of "Experts" | |
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| Confidentiality in the Case of a Client Selling Sick Animals | |
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| Conflict in Obligations to a Peer and a Client | |
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| Reporting a Dog Being Used to Carry Drugs | |
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| An Elderly Client Seeking "Unnecessary" Medical Advice | |
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| A Cat Who Fractures Both Legs after a Surgical Procedure | |
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| Can Annual Vaccinations Be Justified? | |
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| An Organic Farmer Who Won't Use Antibiotics for Foot Rot | |
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| Using Wood Chippers to Kill Chickens | |
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| Should Shelters Place Animals in Less than Perfect Homes? | |
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| Why Should We Worry about Animal Suffering Right before Death? | |
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| "Good" versus "Natural" Death | |
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| Is It Wrong to Modify Animals to Fit Production Systems? | |
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| How Do Veterinarians Respond to Clients with Too Many Animals? | |
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| Should a Veterinarian Wear Company Logos? | |
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| Technicians Performing Management Procedures on Farm | |
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| Extralabel Drug Use | |
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| Animal Welfare versus Animal Rights | |
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| Raw Diet | |
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| Using an Elastrator on Older Bulls | |
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| Finding Animals for Continuing Education | |
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| Should Veterinarians Support Activist Groups? | |
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| Auditability of Animal Welfare | |
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| Producer Unwilling to Euthanize Sick Pigs | |
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| Veterinarians and Laws Banning Pitbulls | |
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| Giving Analgesics to Mask Pain in Horses | |
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| Are Animals Raised in Confinement Happy in Confinement? | |
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| Elderly Couple Adopting Many Animals | |
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| The Ethics of Killing Healthy Animals | |
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| Appendix | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |