Ethics in Veterinary Practice: Balancing Conflicting Interests, a team of distinguished scholars delivers a foundational exploration of animal ethics and a guide to examining contemporary issues and dilemmas that arise regularly in veterinary practice. The book offers comprehensive, quickly accessible, and up-to-date information on veterinary ethics with content devoted to unique issues by practice type.
The authors offer a primary resource for veterinary ethics useful for veterinarians, faculty, instructors, senior undergraduates, and veterinary students that focuses on recognizing and addressing real-life ethical dilemmas and relevant philosophical discussions about the moral status of animals, animal rights, and interests.
Ethics in Veterinary Practice presents material on integrative medicine, animal pain, moral stress, and the future of veterinary ethics.
Perfect for practicing veterinarians, veterinary students, and veterinary technicians and nurses, Ethics in Veterinary Practice: Balancing Conflicting Interests will also earn a place in the libraries of instructors teaching veterinary ethics, as well as biomedical and animal ethicists.
A thorough introduction to a theoretical basis for veterinary ethics, including discussions of animal welfare, ethical theories, and legal issues
Comprehensive explorations of clinical veterinary ethics, including discussions of veterinary advocacy, ethical dilemmas, professionalism, economic issues, and medical errors
Practical discussions of ethical concerns by practice type, including companion animals, equines, and animals used for food
In-depth examination of emerging ethical concerns including animal use in veterinary education and animal maltreatment
Table of Contents
Table of Contents:
Section 1-A Fundamental Basis for Veterinary Ethics
1- Why do Animals Matter? The Moral Status of Animals
2- Animal Welfare: Science, Policy and the Role of Veterinarians
3- Animal Ethics and the Evolution of the Veterinary Profession in the United States
4- Introduction to Veterinary Ethics
5- Veterinary Ethics and the Law
Section 2-Clinical Veterinary Ethics
6- Professionalism
7- Veterinary Advocacies and Ethical Dilemmas
8- Economic Issues
9- Medical Errors
Section 3-Ethical Concerns by Practice Type
10- Companion Animals Shelter medicine Outdoor cats, Overpopulation Neutering/gonadectomy, Conformational disorders, Convenience surgeries Behavioral medicine Referrals Futile intervention
11- Laboratory Animals
12- Food Animals
13- Equines
14- Animals in Zoos, Aquaria, and Free-Ranging Wildlife
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