Ethics, Morality and Animal Biotechnology
Author: Roger Straughan
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 25
ISBN-13: 9780708406151
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Applied Ethics in Animal Research
Author: John P. Gluck
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781557531360
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is a collection of chapters all contributed by individuals who have presented their ideas at conferences and who take moderate stands with the use of animals in research. Specifically the chapters bear of the issues of: notions of the moral standings of animals, history of the methods of argumentation, knowledge of the animal mind, nature and value of regulatory structures, how respect for animals can be converted from theory to action in the laboratory. The chapters have been tempered by open discussion with individuals with different opinions and not audiences of true believers. It is the hope of all, that careful consideration of the positions in these chapters will leave reader with a deepened understanding--not necessarily a hardened position.
The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics
Author: Tom L. Beauchamp
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-11-17
Total Pages: 997
ISBN-13: 0195371968
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text is designed to capture the nature of the questions as they stand today and to propose solutions to many of the major problems in the ethics of how we use animals.
Improving Nature?
Author: Michael J. Reiss
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-05-21
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780521008471
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLittle more than a decade ago the term "genetic engineering" was hardly known outside research laboratories. Today it regularly makes headlines. Those in favor of genetic engineering--and those against it--tell us that it has the potential to change our lives perhaps more than any other scientific or technological advance. But what are the likely consequences of genetic engineering? Is it ethically acceptable? Should we be trying to improve on nature? In Improving Nature?, the authors, a biologist and a moral philosopher, examine the implications of genetic engineering in every aspect of our lives. The underlying science is clearly explained and the moral and ethical considerations are fully disussed, resulting in a wide-ranging, balanced overview of a controversial subject. Michael Jonathan Reiss, a biologist, is Professor of Science Education and Head of Science & Technology, University of London Institute of Education. He is the author of Understanding Science Lessons (Open University Press, 2000). Roger Straughan is Reader in Education at the University of Reading. He is the author of Beliefs, Behaviour and Education (Cassell Academic, 1989). Previous paperback edition (1996) 0-521-63754-6
Animal Ethos
Author: Lesley A. Sharp
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2018-11-06
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0520299256
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat kinds of moral challenges arise from encounters between species in laboratory science? Animal Ethos draws on ethnographic engagement with academic labs in which experimental research involving nonhuman species provokes difficult questions involving life and death, scientific progress, and other competing quandaries. Whereas much has been written on core bioethical values that inform regulated behavior in labs, Lesley A. Sharp reveals the importance of attending to lab personnel’s quotidian and unscripted responses to animals. Animal Ethos exposes the rich—yet poorly understood—moral dimensions of daily lab life, where serendipitous, creative, and unorthodox responses are evidence of concerted efforts by researchers, animal technicians, veterinarians, and animal activists to transform animal laboratories into moral scientific worlds.
Can Animals Be Moral?
Author: Mark Rowlands
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015-03
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 019024030X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCan animals act morally? Philosophical tradition answers "no," and has apparently convincing arguments on its side. Cognitive ethology supplies a growing body of empirical evidence that suggests these arguments are wrong. This groundbreaking book assimilates both philosophical and ethological frameworks into a unified whole and argues for a qualified "yes."
Science and Ethics
Author: Bernard E. Rollin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-03-27
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1139455044
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Science and Ethics, Bernard Rollin examines the ideology that denies the relevance of ethics to science. Providing an introduction to basic ethical concepts, he discusses a variety of ethical issues that are relevant to science and how they are ignored, to the detriment of both science and society. These include research on human subjects, animal research, genetic engineering, biotechnology, cloning, xenotransplantation, and stem cell research. Rollin also explores the ideological agnosticism that scientists have displayed regarding subjective experience in humans and animals, and its pernicious effect on pain management. Finally, he articulates the implications of the ideological denial of ethics for the practice of science itself in terms of fraud, plagiarism, and data falsification. In engaging prose and with philosophical sophistication, Rollin cogently argues in favor of making education in ethics part and parcel of scientific training.
Safety of Genetically Engineered Foods
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2004-07-08
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0309166152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAssists policymakers in evaluating the appropriate scientific methods for detecting unintended changes in food and assessing the potential for adverse health effects from genetically modified products. In this book, the committee recommended that greater scrutiny should be given to foods containing new compounds or unusual amounts of naturally occurring substances, regardless of the method used to create them. The book offers a framework to guide federal agencies in selecting the route of safety assessment. It identifies and recommends several pre- and post-market approaches to guide the assessment of unintended compositional changes that could result from genetically modified foods and research avenues to fill the knowledge gaps.
The Frankenstein Syndrome
Author: Bernard E. Rollin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-06-30
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780521478076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is unlike others on the emotionally charged subject of the moral and social issues raised by genetically engineering animals. Nontechnical and anecdotal, it attempts to inform, not inflame, the reader about the problems society must address.
Food Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective
Author: Paul B. Thompson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-05-05
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 1402057911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis revised edition updates Thompson’s trail-blazing study of ethical and philosophical issues raised by biotechnology. The 1997 book was the first by a philosopher to address food and agricultural biotechnology, discussing ethical issues associated with risk assessment, labelling, animal transformation, patents, and impact on traditional farming communities. The new edition addresses the debates of the intervening decade, including cloning, the Precautionary Principle, and the biotechnology debate between the United States and Europe.
