The Case for Animal Experimentation: An Evolutionary and Ethical PerspectiveDiscusses animal rights and the morality of animal experiments, suggests ethical guidelines for the use of animals as test subjects, and identifies irrational attitudes towards animals |
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The case for animal experimentation: an evolutionary and ethical perspective
User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictFox (Philosophy, Queens Univ., Kingston, Ontario) defends two theses: 1) the fact that animals can suffer yields them no moral entitlements; (2) since animals do not value their own lives, their lives ... Read full review
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this is really just someone's stretched out opinion in the matter. rather than facts.
Contents
Fallacies in Our Thinking About Humans and Animals | 13 |
An Evolutionary Perspective on Humans and Animals | 31 |
Animals and the Moral Community | 47 |
Autonomy and Rights56 | 56 |
Suffering as the Central Concept of Morality63 | 63 |
Why Cruelty to Animals Is Wrong70 | 70 |
Animals and the Moral Imperative79 | 79 |
Conclusion87 | 87 |
Unnecessary Suffering and Alternatives to Animal | 159 |
When Suffering Is Unnecessary165 | 165 |
Replacing Animals in Research173 | 173 |
Replacing Animals in Product Testing180 | 180 |
Replacing Animals in Drug Research and Development187 | 187 |
Conclusion | 194 |
Ethics | 207 |
| 241 | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Case for Animal Experimentation: An Evolutionary and Ethical Perspective |
| Author | Michael Allen Fox |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 1986 |
| ISBN | 0520055012, 9780520055018 |
| Length | 262 pages |
| Subjects | › Philosophy / General |
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