Veterinary and Animal Ethics : Proceedings of the First International Conference on Veterinary ...
ISBN: 9781118314807 | 1118314808
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 12/26/2012
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The first International Conference on Veterinary and Animal Ethics (ICVAE) held in September 2011 saw leading experts from across the world come together to discuss the most important issues of animal welfare in contemporary veterinary practice and research. This is the extended proceedings of that conference, enabling all those interested in this increasingly significant subject to benefit from the insights of those discussions. The conference was divided into four sessions: Principles of veterinary and animal ethics; Justifying ends - the mor... MORE
Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Session I Principles of Veterinary and Animal Ethics
Patrick Bateson
1 The History of Veterinary Ethics in Britain, ca. 1870–2000
Abigail Woods
2 The Idea of Animal Welfare – Developments and Tensions
Peter Sandøe and Karsten Klint Jensen
3 Lessons from Medical Ethics
Carolyn Johnston
4 Veterinary Ethics, Professionalism and Society
Stephen A. May
Session II Justifying Ends – The Morality of Animal Use
Ju... MORE
5 Justice of Animal Use in the Veterinary Profession
Martin C. Whiting
6 Telos
Bernard E. Rollin
7 Agriculture, Animal Welfare and Climate Change
Steven P. McCulloch
8 Ethics and Ethical Analysis in Veterinary Science and Medicine: The Development and Application of the Ethical Matrix Method
Kate Millar
9 The Ethics of Animal Enhancement
James Yeates
Session III Ethical Analyses of Animal Use
Peter Jinman
10 Wildlife Medicine, Conservation and Welfare
James K. Kirkwood
11 Veterinary Ethics and the Use of Animals in Research: Are They Compatible?
Colin Gilbert and Sarah Wolfensohn
12 Production Animals: Ethical and Welfare Issues Raised by Production-focused Management of Newborn Livestock
David J. Mellor
13 Companion Animals
Sandra A. Corr
14 Ethical Analysis of the Use of Animals for Sport
Madeleine Campbell
Session IV Cultural, Political, Legal and Economic Considerations
John Webster
15 Global Cultural Considerations of Animal Ethics
Michael C. Appleby
16 Animal Ethics and the Government’s Policy: ‘To Guard and Protect’
Sophia Hepple and Nigel Gibbens
17 Veterinary Ethics and Law
Marie Fox
18 Ethical Citizenship
Björn Forkmann
19 Principles, Preference and Profit: Animal Ethics
in a Market Economy
John McInerney
Debate: Is It Better to Have Lived and Lost than Never to Have Lived at All?
Patrick Bateson
Index
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