| Description |
xiv, 331 p. ; 26 cm. |
| Contents |
Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- pt. 1. Theory -- Social, persona, and professional ethics -- Ethics1 and Ethics Ethical vectors in veterinary medicine -- The anatomy of ethical decision making -- The nature of ethical theory -- Effecting ethical change -- The fundamental question of veterinary ethics -- New patterns of animal use -- Articulating a new ethic for animals -- Veterinarians and the new social ethic for animals -- How veterinary medicine should respond to the new ethic : the case of animal research -- Veterinarians and farm animal welfare -- Recent progress -- Veterinarians and companion animal welfare -- Subtle advantages of pursuing companion animal welfare -- The changing role of companion animals and their value -- Pain in veterinary (and human) scientific medicine -- Animal distress and animal happiness -- The ethics of critical care -- Aesculapian authority in veterinary medicine -- The ethics of alternative medicine -- |
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pt. 2. Cases -- Introduction -- Case 1 : Cow with cancer eye -- Case 2 : Substandard husbandry for sheep -- Case 3 : Fracture fixation -- Case 4 : Farmer using illegal growth promotant -- Case 5 : Client sells known BCD shedders -- Case 6 : Client request dog euthanasia because she is moving -- Case 7 : Farmer requests a fetotomy -- Case 8 : Suspected dogfighting -- Case 9 : Docking and cropping of Dobermans -- Case 10 Leaving a sow untreated -- Case 11 : Euthanasia of cat who sprays -- Case 12 : Euthanasia of treatable horse for insurance -- Case 13 : Euthanasia of grieving dog -- Case 14 : Supernumerary teat removal -- Case 15 : Breeder seeking euthanasia for puppy with overbite -- Case 16 : Veterinary anatomist spaying farm cats -- Case 17 : Breeder asking for anesthetics so she can crop ears -- Case 18 : Penicillin residue in milk -- Case 19 : Marketing heartworm regimen -- Case 20 : Dairy farmers using unauthorized feed additive prescribed by a veterinarian -- Case 21 : Veterinarian's responsibility when a dog is suspected to be overly aggressive -- |
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Case 22 : Painful research designed without analgesia -- Case 23 : Clients who insist on continuing treatment for failing cancer dog -- Case 24 : Tail docking in dairy cattle -- Case 25 : Killing of neonatal buck kids -- Case 26 : Veterinarian discovers violations in religious slaughter -- Case 27 : Using information about alternative surgical training in hiring -- Case 28 : Pig farmer asking for euthanasia solution -- Case 29 : Feeding kittens to snakes -- Case 30 : Veterinarian seeking maternity leave -- Case 31 : Surgical procedures performed by a technician -- Case 32 : Veterinary liaison with pet store chain providing poor animal care -- Case 33 : Freeze-firing racehorses -- Case 34 : Performing cat castration on the farm -- Case 35 : Irresponsible veterinarian-breeder -- Case 36 : Annual rabies vaccination -- |
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Case 37 : Government policy regarding export of breeding swine -- Case 38 : Improperly labeled prescriptions swallowed by child -- Case 39 : Referral practice "stealing" clients -- Case 40 : Confidentiality and a breeder perpetuating a line of dogs with seizures -- Case 41 : Should veterinarians be required to report animal abuse? -- Case 42 : Two cases of found dogs -- Case 43 : Should a biting dog be adopted out? -- Case 44 : Euthanizing sick animals without their owner's permission -- Case 45 : Partner's misdiagnosis -- Case 46 : Heavy metal toxicosis an slaughter for food -- Case 47 : Conflict of interest -- Case 48 : Rabies vaccine for livestock -- Case 49 : Female veterinarian receiving unwelcome attention -- Case 50 : Female veterinarian offended by colleagues' humor -- Case 51 : Client refuses euthanasia for sick cat -- Case 52 : Should veterinarians prescribe drugs to increase productivity? -- Case 53 : Previous practitioner leaves sponge in dog's peritoneum -- Case 54 : Illicit importation of boat semen -- Case 55 : Misreading of radiograph -- Case 56 : Cattery serving as source of FIP -- Case 57 : Injured, unowned animal -- Case 58 : Writing prescriptions for branded drugs in return for financial incentive -- Case 59 : Negligence of an emergency clinician in treating trauma -- |
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Case 60 : Poor air quality in swine barn -- Case 61 : Supplementing income with prescription drugs -- Case 62 : Client's request to euthanize his dog after his death -- Case 63 : Confidentiality and an employee's history of drug abuse -- Case 64 : Convenience euthanasia of a dog without proper permission -- Case 65 : Veterinarian who ignores roundworms in puppies -- Case 66 : Stray tattooed beagle -- Case 67 : Prescribing and selling pharmaceuticals -- Case 68 : Suspected poisoning -- Case 69 : Euthanasia of research animal without researcher's permission -- Case 70 : Anorexic client not feeding her dog -- Case 71 : Improving rural euthanasia -- Case 72 : Second commentary on stray tattooed beagle -- Case 73 : Bull mastiff with osteosarcoma -- Case 74 : Financially stressed client and annual physical -- Case 75 : Botched caesarean section -- Case 76 : Farmer asking advice of "experts" -- Case 77 : Confidentiality in the case of a client selling sick animals -- Case 78 : Conflict in obligations to a peer and a client -- Case 79 : Reporting a dog being used to carry drugs -- Case 80 : An elderly client seeking "unnecessary" medical advice -- Case 81 : A cat who fractures both legs after a surgical procedure -- Case 82 : Can annual vaccinations be justified? -- |
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Case 83 : An organic farmer who won't use antibiotics for foot rot -- Case 84 : using wood chippers to kill chickens -- Case 85 : Should shelters place animals in less than perfect homes? -- Case 86 : Why should we worry about animal suffering right before death? -- Case 87 : "Good" versus "natural" death -- Case 88 : Is it wrong to modify animals to fit production systems? -- Case 89 : How do veterinarians respond to clients with too many animals? -- Case 90 : Should a veterinarian wear company logos? -- Case 91 : Technicians performing management procedures on farm -- Case 92 : Extralabel drug use -- Case 93 : Animal welfare versus animal rights -- Case 94 : Raw diet -- Case 95 : Using an elastrator on older bulls -- Case 96 : Finding animals for continuing education -- Case 97 : Should veterinarians support activist groups? -- Case 98 : Auditability of animal welfare -- Case 99 : Producer unwilling to euthanize sick pigs -- Case 100 : Veterinarians and laws banning pitbulls -- Case 101 : Giving analgesics to mask pain in horses -- Case 102 : Are animals raised in confinement happy in confinement? -- Case 103 : Elderly couple adopting many animals -- Case 104 : The ethics of killing healthy animals -- Appendix -- References -- Index. |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-323) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- pt. 1. Theory -- Social, persona, and professional ethics -- Ethics1 and Ethics Ethical vectors in veterinary medicine -- The anatomy of ethical decision making -- The nature of ethical theory -- Effecting ethical change -- The fundamental question of veterinary ethics -- New patterns of animal use -- Articulating a new ethic for animals -- Veterinarians and the new social ethic for animals -- How veterinary medicine should respond to the new ethic : the case of animal research -- Veterinarians and farm animal welfare -- Recent progress -- Veterinarians and companion animal welfare -- Subtle advantages of pursuing companion animal welfare -- The changing role of companion animals and their value -- Pain in veterinary (and human) scientific medicine -- Animal distress and animal happiness -- The ethics of critical care -- Aesculapian authority in veterinary medicine -- The ethics of alternative medicine -- |
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pt. 2. Cases -- Introduction -- Case 1 : Cow with cancer eye -- Case 2 : Substandard husbandry for sheep -- Case 3 : Fracture fixation -- Case 4 : Farmer using illegal growth promotant -- Case 5 : Client sells known BCD shedders -- Case 6 : Client request dog euthanasia because she is moving -- Case 7 : Farmer requests a fetotomy -- Case 8 : Suspected dogfighting -- Case 9 : Docking and cropping of Dobermans -- Case 10 Leaving a sow untreated -- Case 11 : Euthanasia of cat who sprays -- Case 12 : Euthanasia of treatable horse for insurance -- Case 13 : Euthanasia of grieving dog -- Case 14 : Supernumerary teat removal -- Case 15 : Breeder seeking euthanasia for puppy with overbite -- Case 16 : Veterinary anatomist spaying farm cats -- Case 17 : Breeder asking for anesthetics so she can crop ears -- Case 18 : Penicillin residue in milk -- Case 19 : Marketing heartworm regimen -- Case 20 : Dairy farmers using unauthorized feed additive prescribed by a veterinarian -- Case 21 : Veterinarian's responsibility when a dog is suspected to be overly aggressive -- |
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Case 22 : Painful research designed without analgesia -- Case 23 : Clients who insist on continuing treatment for failing cancer dog -- Case 24 : Tail docking in dairy cattle -- Case 25 : Killing of neonatal buck kids -- Case 26 : Veterinarian discovers violations in religious slaughter -- Case 27 : Using information about alternative surgical training in hiring -- Case 28 : Pig farmer asking for euthanasia solution -- Case 29 : Feeding kittens to snakes -- Case 30 : Veterinarian seeking maternity leave -- Case 31 : Surgical procedures performed by a technician -- Case 32 : Veterinary liaison with pet store chain providing poor animal care -- Case 33 : Freeze-firing racehorses -- Case 34 : Performing cat castration on the farm -- Case 35 : Irresponsible veterinarian-breeder -- Case 36 : Annual rabies vaccination -- |
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Case 37 : Government policy regarding export of breeding swine -- Case 38 : Improperly labeled prescriptions swallowed by child -- Case 39 : Referral practice "stealing" clients -- Case 40 : Confidentiality and a breeder perpetuating a line of dogs with seizures -- Case 41 : Should veterinarians be required to report animal abuse? -- Case 42 : Two cases of found dogs -- Case 43 : Should a biting dog be adopted out? -- Case 44 : Euthanizing sick animals without their owner's permission -- Case 45 : Partner's misdiagnosis -- Case 46 : Heavy metal toxicosis an slaughter for food -- Case 47 : Conflict of interest -- Case 48 : Rabies vaccine for livestock -- Case 49 : Female veterinarian receiving unwelcome attention -- Case 50 : Female veterinarian offended by colleagues' humor -- Case 51 : Client refuses euthanasia for sick cat -- Case 52 : Should veterinarians prescribe drugs to increase productivity? -- Case 53 : Previous practitioner leaves sponge in dog's peritoneum -- Case 54 : Illicit importation of boat semen -- Case 55 : Misreading of radiograph -- Case 56 : Cattery serving as source of FIP -- Case 57 : Injured, unowned animal -- Case 58 : Writing prescriptions for branded drugs in return for financial incentive -- Case 59 : Negligence of an emergency clinician in treating trauma -- |
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Case 60 : Poor air quality in swine barn -- Case 61 : Supplementing income with prescription drugs -- Case 62 : Client's request to euthanize his dog after his death -- Case 63 : Confidentiality and an employee's history of drug abuse -- Case 64 : Convenience euthanasia of a dog without proper permission -- Case 65 : Veterinarian who ignores roundworms in puppies -- Case 66 : Stray tattooed beagle -- Case 67 : Prescribing and selling pharmaceuticals -- Case 68 : Suspected poisoning -- Case 69 : Euthanasia of research animal without researcher's permission -- Case 70 : Anorexic client not feeding her dog -- Case 71 : Improving rural euthanasia -- Case 72 : Second commentary on stray tattooed beagle -- Case 73 : Bull mastiff with osteosarcoma -- Case 74 : Financially stressed client and annual physical -- Case 75 : Botched caesarean section -- Case 76 : Farmer asking advice of "experts" -- Case 77 : Confidentiality in the case of a client selling sick animals -- Case 78 : Conflict in obligations to a peer and a client -- Case 79 : Reporting a dog being used to carry drugs -- Case 80 : An elderly client seeking "unnecessary" medical advice -- Case 81 : A cat who fractures both legs after a surgical procedure -- Case 82 : Can annual vaccinations be justified? -- |
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Case 83 : An organic farmer who won't use antibiotics for foot rot -- Case 84 : using wood chippers to kill chickens -- Case 85 : Should shelters place animals in less than perfect homes? -- Case 86 : Why should we worry about animal suffering right before death? -- Case 87 : "Good" versus "natural" death -- Case 88 : Is it wrong to modify animals to fit production systems? -- Case 89 : How do veterinarians respond to clients with too many animals? -- Case 90 : Should a veterinarian wear company logos? -- Case 91 : Technicians performing management procedures on farm -- Case 92 : Extralabel drug use -- Case 93 : Animal welfare versus animal rights -- Case 94 : Raw diet -- Case 95 : Using an elastrator on older bulls -- Case 96 : Finding animals for continuing education -- Case 97 : Should veterinarians support activist groups? -- Case 98 : Auditability of animal welfare -- Case 99 : Producer unwilling to euthanize sick pigs -- Case 100 : Veterinarians and laws banning pitbulls -- Case 101 : Giving analgesics to mask pain in horses -- Case 102 : Are animals raised in confinement happy in confinement? -- Case 103 : Elderly couple adopting many animals -- Case 104 : The ethics of killing healthy animals -- Appendix -- References -- Index. |
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Veterinary medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Veterinarians -- Professional ethics.
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Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Veterinary Medicine.
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Animal Welfare.
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Ethics, Professional.
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| ISBN |
0813803993 (alk. paper) |
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9780813803999 |
| OCLC # |
61864539 |
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