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

Beauchamp, Tom L.

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ISBN 10: 0195340191 ISBN 13: 9780195340198

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

Riassunto

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.

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L'autore

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.

Contenuti

• Part I. Introduction
• 1: Moral Issues about Animals
• Part II. Farm Animals
• 2: Humane Housing for Hogs
• 3: Veal Crates and Human Palates
• 4: What is a Chicken Worth?
• Part III. Animals for Entertainment
• 5: The Sport of Rooster Fighting
• 6: Winky and Wanda at the Detroit Zoo
• 7: Ringling Brothers' Big Cats
• Part IV. Companion Animals
• 8: Cosmetic Surgery for Dogs
• Part V. Religious Uses of Animals
• 9: Animal Sacrifice as Religious Ritual: The Santeria Case
• Part VI. Endangered Species
• 10: Bonobos: Humans' Closest Relatives Face Extinction
• Part VII. Biomedical Research and Cosmetic Testing
• 11: Head Injury Experiments on Primates at the University of Pennsylvania
• 12: What Does the Public Have a Right to Know?
• 13: Can There be Cruelty-Free Cosmetic Testing?
• Part VIII. Behavioral Research
• 14: Monkeys without Mothers
• 15: The Experimental Study of Animal Aggression
• Part IX. Wildlife Research
• 16: The Death of a Vagrant Bird
• Part X. Educational Uses of Animals
• 17: Should Frog Dissection Continue?
• Index

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press, USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195340191
• ISBN 13: 9780195340198
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 300
• Contatto del produttore: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italia