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1 Online-Ressource (216 pages)
ISBN:
9780252099922
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0252099923
Inhalt:
"At present, human beings worldwide are using an estimated 115.3 million animals in experiments--a normalization of the unthinkable on an immense scale. In terms of harm, pain, suffering, and death, animal experiments constitute one of the major moral issues of our time. Given today's deeper understanding of animal sentience, the contributors to this volume argue that we must afford animals a special moral consideration that precludes their use in experiments. The Ethical Case against Animal Experiments begins with the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics's groundbreaking and comprehensive ethical critique of the practice of animal experiments. A second section offers original writings that engage with, and elaborate on, aspects of the Oxford Centre report. The essayists explore historical, philosophical, and personal perspectives that range from animal experiments in classical times to the place of necessity in animal research to one researcher's painful journey from researcher to opponent. A devastating look at a contemporary moral crisis, The Ethical Case against Animal Experiments melds logic and compassion to mount a powerful challenge to human cruelty" --
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical resources and index
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Oxford : the home of controversy about animals /
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Normalizing the unthinkable : the ethics of using animals in research : a report of the working group of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics
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Supporting essays. - Animal experimentation in classical antiquity /
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Gender and the animal experiments controversy in nineteenth century America /
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Is "necessity" a useful concept in animal research ethics? /
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Science fiction and science fact : ethics and nonhuman animal experiments /
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Harms versus benefits : a practical critique of utilitarian calculations /
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Utilitarian benefit and uncertainty under emergent systems /
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Do moral principles permit experimenting on nonconsenting beings? /
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Can animal experiments be ethically acceptable when they are not scientifically defensible? /
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A Rawlsian case against animal experimentation /
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Harms of captivity within laboratories and afterward /
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780252041327
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ISBN 0252041321
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ISBN 9780252082856
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ISBN 0252082850
Sprache:
Englisch
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