The Human Use of Animals

Klappentext The Human Use of Animals presents case studies that look at the practical and ethical issues arising from the human use of animals. The case studies report the facts about some of the most compelling and difficult issues that confront society today in the human use of animals. Each case study combines the facts of the case with analysis of ethical issues. Zusammenfassung The Human Use of Animals reports the facts about some of the most compelling and difficult issues about animal welfare that confront society today. Fully revised and with four new chapters, the 16 case studies in the present volume explore a variety of controversies about the human uses of animals that have emerged over the last 40 years or so. The book begins with a lengthy exploration of applicable ethical theory. It then presents the facts of the 16 cases, followed in each case by analysis of pertinent theoretical and practical ethical issues. This volume offers a discussion of controversies within a range of contexts that includes biomedical, behavioural, and wildlife research, cosmetic safety testing, education, entertainment (zoos and circuses), the food industry, commerce, companion animals and animal uses in religious practices.

Zusammenfassung
The Human Use of Animals reports the facts about some of the most compelling and difficult issues about animal welfare that confront society today. Fully revised and with four new chapters, the 16 case studies in the present volume explore a variety of controversies about the human uses of animals that have emerged over the last 40 years or so. The book begins with a lengthy exploration of applicable ethical theory. It then presents the facts of the 16 cases, followed in each case by analysis of pertinent theoretical and practical ethical issues. This volume offers a discussion of controversies within a range of contexts that includes biomedical, behavioural, and wildlife research, cosmetic safety testing, education, entertainment (zoos and circuses), the food industry, commerce, companion animals and animal uses in religious practices.

Inhalt

• Part I. Introduction

• 1: Moral Issues about Animals

• Part II. Farm Animals

• 2: Humane Housing for Hogs

• 3: Veal Crates and Human Palates

• 4: What is a Chicken Worth?

• Part III. Animals for Entertainment

• 5: The Sport of Rooster Fighting

• 6: Winky and Wanda at the Detroit Zoo

• 7: Ringling Brothers' Big Cats

• Part IV. Companion Animals

• 8: Cosmetic Surgery for Dogs

• Part V. Religious Uses of Animals

• 9: Animal Sacrifice as Religious Ritual: The Santeria Case

• Part VI. Endangered Species

• 10: Bonobos: Humans' Closest Relatives Face Extinction

• Part VII. Biomedical Research and Cosmetic Testing

• 11: Head Injury Experiments on Primates at the University of Pennsylvania

• 12: What Does the Public Have a Right to Know?

• 13: Can There be Cruelty-Free Cosmetic Testing?

• Part VIII. Behavioral Research

• 14: Monkeys without Mothers

• 15: The Experimental Study of Animal Aggression

• Part IX. Wildlife Research

• 16: The Death of a Vagrant Bird

• Part X. Educational Uses of Animals

• 17: Should Frog Dissection Continue?

• Index