Theory and Cases
Second Edition
by Bernard E. Rollin
An Introduction to Veterinary Medical Ethics offers a highly readable and approachable introduction to the nature of ethical theory, reasoning, and decision-making, and its practical application to veterinary medicine.
Contents
Theory
- Social, Personal, and Professional Ethics
- Ethics 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
- Veterinary Medicine Should Respond to the New Ethic: The Case of Animal Research
...and much more
Cases
- Cow with Cancer Eye
- Substandard Husbandry for Sheep
- Fracture Fixation
- Farmer Using Illegal Growth Promotant
- Client Sells Known BVD Shedders
- Client Requests Dog Euthanaia Because She is Moving
- Farmer Requests a Fetotomy
- Suspected Dogfighting
- Docking and Cropping of Dobermans
- Leaving a Sow Untreated
...and cases 11-104
Index
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