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An edition of For our children (2010)

For our children

the ethics of animal experimentation in the age of genetic engineering

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Rodopi
Language
English
Pages
198

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Table of Contents

Introduction : animal experimentation, public opinion, and philosophical debate. Animal experimentation ; Genetically modified animals ; Public attitudes toward animal experimentation ; Public attitudes toward genetically modified animals ; The philosophical debate
Five ethical prototypes of animal experimentation. Human dominion ; Equal consideration of interests ; Animal rights ; Strong human priority ; Weak human priority ; A spectrum of views
The case for "weak human priority." Legal regulation and the five prototypes ; Ethical theory ; Key metaphors ; Intrinsic and relational properties ; Reason and feelings ; Impartiality and special obligations ; From "is" to "ought" ; Strengths and weaknesses of the five prototypes ; Proposal : weak human priority ; Differences compared to Midgley's version ; Moral imagination and imaginative casuistry ; Moral imagination in animal experimentation
The scientific value of animal experimentation. Animal experimentation in present-day basic and applied research ; Prototypical cases of scientifically valuable animal experiments ; The Con argument from causal disanalogy ; Objections to the Con argument from causal disanology ; The 3Rs : replacement, reduction, refinement ; Implications of the five prototypes for the 3Rs ; The 3Rs : practical implications
Animal welfare and ethical balancing. Three animal welfare concerns ; A comprehensive approach ; Conceptual implications ; Ethical implications ; Animal sentience ; Animal welfare in animal experimentation ; Ethical balancing in animal experimentation
Genetically modified animals in research. Implications of the five prototypes ; Scientific concerns ; Intrinsic ethical concerns ; Animal welfare concerns ; Ethical trade-off : four cases.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-193) and index.

Gift of Philosophers Index

Published in
Amsterdam, New York
Series
Value inquiry book series -- v. 215. -- Values in bioethics

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
179.4
Library of Congress
HV4915 .N67 2010, HV4915.N67 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 198 p. ;
Number of pages
198

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25543882M
Internet Archive
forourchildrenet00nord
ISBN 10
9042028041
ISBN 13
9789042028043
OCLC/WorldCat
501976659

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