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1 online resource (x, 285 pages) : illustrations |
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Animals and ethics |
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Animals and ethics.
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Preface; Prologue: The Beginning; 1. Life in New York; 2. Coming to CSU: The Start of My Animal Career; 3. Veterinary Medicine; 4. Ethics, Veterinary Medical Ethics, and Emerging Animal Ethics; 5. The New Social Ethic for Animals: A Philosophical Approach to Animal Ethics; 6. Companion Animals and Animal Advocates; 7. Creating Law for Animal Research; 8. The Deeper Meaning of the Laws; 9. A Philosopher Looks at Scientific Ideology; 10. Ideology and Consciousness; 11. Ethical Issues in Animal Research and the Research-Animal Laws: Successes and Inadequacies; 12. Pain and Ideology |
| Summary |
When philosopher Bernard Rollin was six years old, he visited an animal shelter and was told about unwanted dogs being put to sleep. The event shaped his moral outlook and initiated his concern for how animals were treated. In his irreverent memoir, Putting the Horse before Descartes, Rollin provides an account of how he came to educate himself and others about the ethical treatment of animals and work toward improvements in animal welfare. Rollin describes, in witty, often disarming detail, how he became an outspoken critic of how animals were being treated in veterinary and medical schools as |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-271) and index |
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Print version record |
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Rollin, Bernard E.
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Rollin, Bernard E
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Rollin, Bernard E. fast |
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Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Ethicists -- United States -- Biography
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NATURE -- Animal Rights.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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NATURE -- Animals -- General.
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Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Ethicists
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United States
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Electronic books.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781592138272 |
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1592138276 |
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129985060X |
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9781299850606 |
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