An edition of For our children
(2010)
For our children
the ethics of animal experimentation in the age of genetic engineering
by Anders Nordgren
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For our children: the ethics of animal experimentation in the age of genetic engineering
2010, Rodopi
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For Our Children: The Ethics of Animal Experimentation in the Age of Genetic Engineering
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Table of Contents
Introduction : animal experimentation, public opinion, and philosophical debate. Animal experimentation ; Genetically modified animals ; Public attitudes toward animal experimentation ; Public attitudes toward genetically modified animals ; The philosophical debate
Five ethical prototypes of animal experimentation. Human dominion ; Equal consideration of interests ; Animal rights ; Strong human priority ; Weak human priority ; A spectrum of views
The case for "weak human priority." Legal regulation and the five prototypes ; Ethical theory ; Key metaphors ; Intrinsic and relational properties ; Reason and feelings ; Impartiality and special obligations ; From "is" to "ought" ; Strengths and weaknesses of the five prototypes ; Proposal : weak human priority ; Differences compared to Midgley's version ; Moral imagination and imaginative casuistry ; Moral imagination in animal experimentation
The scientific value of animal experimentation. Animal experimentation in present-day basic and applied research ; Prototypical cases of scientifically valuable animal experiments ; The Con argument from causal disanalogy ; Objections to the Con argument from causal disanology ; The 3Rs : replacement, reduction, refinement ; Implications of the five prototypes for the 3Rs ; The 3Rs : practical implications
Animal welfare and ethical balancing. Three animal welfare concerns ; A comprehensive approach ; Conceptual implications ; Ethical implications ; Animal sentience ; Animal welfare in animal experimentation ; Ethical balancing in animal experimentation
Genetically modified animals in research. Implications of the five prototypes ; Scientific concerns ; Intrinsic ethical concerns ; Animal welfare concerns ; Ethical trade-off : four cases.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-193) and index.
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