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Ethics, animals and science /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dolan, Kevin
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Science, [1999]
Subjects:
Animal Welfare.
Animal Rights.
Ethics.
Animals, Laboratory.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Pt. I. Ethics
  • Exploring the moral maze
  • General introduction
  • Towards a definition of ethics
  • Ethical look-a-likes
  • The evolution of morality
  • Moral systems
  • Morality and religion
  • The truth value of ethical statements
  • Science, truth and certainty
  • Science and ethics
  • The subjectivity of ethical statements
  • Ethical subjectivism and objective standards
  • Objectivism in ethics
  • Descriptivism
  • Universalization in ethics
  • The language of ethics
  • The term 'good'
  • The term 'ought'
  • An 'institution' in the ethical sense
  • The term 'right'
  • The inadequacy of ethics
  • Some redeeming features of ethics
  • Ethical theories
  • Introduction
  • Absolutism
  • Relativism
  • The deontological and teleological approaches in ethics
  • Consequentialism
  • Utilitarianism
  • Scepticism
  • Immanuel Kant
  • Intuitionism
  • Conscience
  • Emotivism
  • Some modern moral philosophers
  • Naturalism (the naturalistic fallacy)
  • Pragmatism
  • Situation ethics
  • Seeking a norm of morality
  • Introduction
  • The law as a norm of morality
  • The nature of freedom
  • Introduction
  • Free will
  • Determinism
  • Existentialism (the farthest reaches of freedom)
  • Liberty
  • Freedom of speech
  • Liberty and the commons
  • Ethics and pollution
  • Population and the commons
  • Liberty and rights
  • Slavery
  • Personal morality
  • Introduction
  • Coercion
  • 'If I don't do it, someone else will'
  • Doing good by stealth
  • Society and ethics
  • Introduction
  • The social contract
  • Society and mores
  • Cultural relativity
  • Education
  • Ethics and law
  • Law and morality
  • What about justice?
  • Politics and morality
  • Pt. II. Ethics and animals
  • Human attitudes to animals
  • Applied ethics
  • All animals are equal
  • Attitudes to animals
  • Religious and legal attitudes to animals
  • Philosophical attitudes to animals
  • Personal attitudes to animals
  • More on speciesism
  • Species élitism
  • The biological continuum
  • Anthropomorphism
  • A summary of human attitudes to animals
  • Animal rights
  • Introduction
  • The nature of rights
  • What rights could animals have?
  • Arguments pertinent to animal rights
  • Benefits to animals from human activity
  • Domestication
  • Veterinary medicine
  • Transport
  • Conservation
  • Dependency of animals in general
  • The dependency of animals in research
  • The responsibility for some animals
  • Animal awareness and pain
  • Introduction
  • Doubts about animal consciousness
  • Acceptance of animal consciousness
  • Animal thought
  • The universality of pain
  • Animal pain
  • Measuring pain
  • Hedonism in practice
  • Acceptability of pain
  • Concluding words on the subject of pain
  • Pt. III. Ethics, animals and science
  • The controversy
  • Introduction
  • The involved
  • The concerned
  • Activists
  • Practical consequences (security)
  • Disadvantages of using animals in research
  • Obligatory use of animals in research
  • Sentiment
  • Public relations
  • The art of manipulation
  • The use of alternatives - the three Rs
  • Introduction
  • Inadequacies of alternatives
  • The three Rs and the law
  • Marshall Hall's principles
  • The three Rs
  • Replacement
  • Validation
  • Reduction
  • Refinement
  • A multiplicity of Rs
  • Cost-benefit - the balancing act
  • Introduction
  • Justification
  • The cost in animal suffering
  • Benefits
  • Trying to strike the balance
  • Various approaches to solving cost-benefit evaluation
  • Ethical scores for animal experiments
  • The Dutch system
  • A British ethical approach
  • A selection of other approaches
  • Ethics committees
  • Introduction
  • The Swedish experience
  • The Canadian system
  • The making of an ethics committee
  • The disadvantages of ethics committees
  • The advantages of ethics committees
  • The ethical review process
  • Authoritative source material
  • The text of the revised Annex (1/4/98)
  • A working model - human research ethics committees (HRECs)
  • Some examples of emerging ERPs
  • A final note on the 1997 report
  • Always there is a matter of degree
  • Introduction
  • Degrees of acceptability of the use of animals
  • Killing animals
  • Does a culture make a difference?
  • What animals matter?
  • Grading right and wrong
  • Concluding comments.