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.
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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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Ethics of animal research.
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9780262017060
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Animal experimentation-- Moral and ethical aspects.
Animal Experimentation-- ethics.
Animal experimentation-- Moral and ethical aspects.