The ethics of animal research : exploring the controversy /
This volume explores the ethical controversies that have arisen over animal research, examining closely the complex scientific philosophical, moral, and legal issues involved.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
2012
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| Series: | Basic bioethics.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- The ethics of animal research: an overview of the debate
- Animal research: ethical and scientific starting points
- Ethics and animal research
- The evolutionary basis for animal research
- Bringing moral theory to bear on animal research
- Defending animal research: an international perspective
- Animal experimentation, marginal cases, and the significance of suffering
- Lives in the balance: utilitarianism and animal research
- Empty cages: animal rights and vivisection
- Virtue, vice, and vivisection
- Contractarianism, animals, and risk
- The ethics of animal research in the new era of biotechnology
- Ethical issues concerning transgenic animals in biomedical research
- Casuistry and the moral continuum: valuating animal biotechnology
- Making progress in the debate: alternative paths forward
- Debating the value of animal research
- The commonsense case against animal experimentation
- Rational engagement, emotional response, and the prospects for moral progress in animal use "debates"
- Animal rights advocacy and modern medicine: the charge of hypocrisy
- We're all animals: a feminist treatment of the moral limits of nonhuman animal research.
