Human Use of Animals Case Studies in Ethical Choice

Name: Human Use of Animals Case Studies in Ethical Choice
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ISBN: 9780195119084

ISBN-10: 0195119088

ISBN-13: 9780195119084

Edition: 1998

Authors: F. Barbara Orlans, Tom L. Beauchamp, Rebecca Dresser, David B. Morton, John P. Gluck

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 Sixteen original, previously unpublished essays cover controversies associated with the human use of animals in a broad range of contexts, including biomedical, behavioral, and wildlife research,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

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List price: $81.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/29/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.02" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Dresser is the Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law and Professor of Ethics in Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis




Introduction



Moral Issues about Animals



Biomedical Research



Baboon-Human Liver Transplants: The Pittsburgh Case



Head Injury Experiments on Primates at the University of Pennsylvania



Patenting Animals: The Harvard ""Oncomouse""



What Does the Public Have a Right to Know?



Cosmetic Safety Testing



Beauty Without the Beast



Behavioral Research



Apes and Language: Washoe and Her Successors



Can Animal Aggression Be Studied in an Ethical Manner?



Monkeys Without Mothers



Wildlife Research



The Death of a Vagrant Bird



Education



Dissection of Frogs: The Jenifer Graham Case



Food and Farming



Force-Feeding of Geese



Veal Crates and Human Palates



Fowl Deeds



Companion Animals



Should the Tail Wag the Dog?



Where Should Research Scientists Get Their Dogs?



Animal Sacrifice as Religious Ritual: The Santeria Case