The ethics of animal research : exploring the controversy / edited by Jeremy R. Garrett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Garrett, Jeremy R.

Series:

Basic bioethics.

Basic bioethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal experimentation--Moral and ethical aspects.

Animal experimentation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume explores the ethical controversies that have arisen over animal research, examining closely the complex scientific philosophical, moral, and legal issues involved.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Series Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contributors""; ""1 The Ethics of Animal Research: An Overview of the Debate""; ""I Animal Research: Ethical and Scientific Starting Points""; ""2 Ethics and Animal Research""; ""3 The Evolutionary Basis for Animal Research""; ""II Bringing Moral Theory to Bear on Animal Research""; ""4 Defending Animal Research: An International Perspective""; ""5 Animal Experimentation, Marginal Cases, and the Significance of Suffering""; ""6 Lives in the Balance: Utilitarianism andAnimal Research""; ""7 Empty Cages: Animal Rights and Vivisection""

""8 Virtue, Vice, and Vivisection""""9 Contractarianism, Animals, and Risk""; ""III The Ethics of Animal Research in the New Era of Biotechnology""; ""10 Ethical Issues Concerning Transgenic Animals in Biomedical Research""; ""11 Casuistry and the Moral Continuum: valuating Animal Biotechnology""; ""IV Making Progress in the Debate: Alternative Paths Forward""; ""12 Debating the Value of Animal Research""; ""13 The Commonsense Case against Animal Experimentation""; ""14 Rational Engagement, Emotional Response, and the Prospects for Moral Progress in Animal Use “Debates�""

""15 Animal Rights Advocacy and Modern Medicine: The Charge of Hypocrisy""""16 We�re All Animals: A Feminist Treatment of the Moral Limits of Nonhuman Animal Research""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-262-30085-0

0-262-30160-1

OCLC:

787852697