2006 . Wiley-Blackwell . 352 Pages . Paperback. One of the most difficult issues that confronts veterinarians and staff today concerns the profession’s obligation to the animal and the sometimes conflicting demands from clients, peers and society. The veterinarian’s role has become more complex with new ethical challenges posed by issues such as growing public awareness regarding animal welfare, increasing economic value of companion animals, growth of veterinary specialization, experimentation with alternative and complementary medicine, and concern for pain management and mental well-being of animals.
Written by an acknowledged pioneer in veterinary ethics, An Introduction to Veterinary Medical Ethics addresses the ethical challenges that veterinarians face daily as they seek to balance obligations to animal, client, peers, society and self. The book offers a highly readable and approachable introduction to the nature of ethical theory, reasoning and decision-making, and its practical application to veterinary medicine. Now with over 100 real-life veterinary case histories and analysis, this edition also includes new discussions of animal pain, distress and happiness, ethics of critical care, alternative medicine, legal status and value of animals, and Aesculapian authority.
An Introduction to Veterinary Medical Ethics: Theory and Cases, Second Edition is recommended as essential reading for all veterinary students and practitioners, as well as those interested in general animal welfare.
*New edition from an acknowledged pioneer in veterinary ethics *Addresses ethical challenges that veterinary medicine, with over 100 real-life cases *Includes new discussion of legal status and value of animals, alternative medicine, Aesculapian authority, ethics and critical care, and animal pain, distress and happiness *Ideal for veterinary students and practitioners . Preface to the Second Edition.@pPreface to the First Edition.@pPart I. Theory.@pSocial, Personal, and Professional Ethics.@pEthics1 and Ethics2.@pEthical Vectors in Veterinary Medicine.@pThe Anatomy of Ethical Decision Making.@pThe Nature of Ethical Theory.@pEffecting Ethical Change.@pThe Fundamental Question of Veterinary Ethics.@pNew Patterns of Animal Use.@pArticulating a New Ethic for Animals.@pVeterinarians and the New Social Ethic for Animals.@pHow Veterinary Medicine Should Respond to the New Ethic: The Case of Animal Research.@pVeterinarians and Farm Animal Welfare.@pRecent Progress.@pVeterinarians and Companion Animal Welfare.@pSubtle Advantages of Pursuing Companion Animal Welfare.@pThe Changing Role of Companion Animals and Their Value.@pPain in Veterinary (and Human) Scientific Medicine.@pAnimal Distress and Animal Happiness.@pThe Ethics of Critical Care.@pAesculapian Authority in Veterinary Medicine.@pThe Ethics of Alternative Medicine.@pPart II. Cases.@pIntroduction.@pCase 1. Cow with Cancer Eye.@pCase 2. Substandard Husbandry for Sheep.@pCase 3. Fracture Fixation.@pCase 4. Farmer Using Illegal Growth Promotant.@pCase 5. Client Sells Known BVD Shedders.@pCase 6. Client Requests Dog Euthanasia Because She Is Moving.@pCase 7. Farmer Requests a Fetotomy.@pCase 8. Suspected Dogfighting.@pCase 9. Docking and Cropping of Dobermans.@pCase 10. Leaving a Sow Untreated.@pCase 11. Euthanasia of Cat Who Sprays.@pCase 12. Euthanasia of Treatable Horse for Insurance.@pCase 13. Euthanasia of Grieving Dog.@pCase 14. Supernumerary Teat Removal.@pCase 15. Breeder Seeking Euthanasia for Puppy with Overbite.@pCase 16. Veterinary Anatomist Spaying Farm Cats.@pCase 17. Breeder Asking for Anesthetics So She Can Crop Ears.@pCase 18. Penicillin Residue in Milk.@pCase 19. Marketing Heartworm Regimen.@pCase 20. Dairy Farmers Using Unauthorized Feed Additive Prescribed by a.@pVeterinarian.@pCase 21. Veterinarian’s Responsibility When a Dog Is Suspected to Be Overly Aggressive.@pCase 22. Painful Research Designed without Analgesia.@pCase 23. Clients Who Insist on Continuing Treatment for Failing Cancer Dog.@pCase 24. Tail Docking in Dairy Cattle.@pCase 25. Killing of Neonatal Buck Kids.@pCase 26. Veterinarian Discovers Violations in Religious Slaughter.@pCase 27. Using Information about Alternative Surgical Training in Hiring.@pCase 28. Pig Farmer Asking for Euthanasia Solution.@pCase 29. Feeding Kittens to Snakes.@pCase 30. Veterinarian Seeking Maternity Leave.@pCase 31. Surgical Procedures Performed by a Technician.@pCase 32. Veterinary Liaison with Pet Store Chain Providing Poor Animal Care.@pCase 33. Freeze-Firing Racehorses.@pCase 34. Performing Cat Castration on the Farm.@pCase 35. Irresponsible Veterinarian-Breeder.@pCase 36. Annual Rabies Vaccination.@pCase 37. Government Policy Regarding Export of Breeding Swine.@pCase 38. Improperly Labeled Prescriptions Swallowed by Child.@pCase 39. Referral Practice "Stealing" Clients.@pCase 40. Confidentiality and a Breeder Perpetuating a Line of Dogs with Seizures.@pCase 41. Should Veterinarians Be Required to Report Animal Abuse?.@pCase 42. Two Cases of Found Dogs.@pCase 43. Should a Biting Dog Be Adopted Out.@pCase 44. Euthanizing Sick Animals without their Owner’s Permission.@pCase 45. Partner’s Misdiagnosis.@pCase 46. Heavy Metal Toxicosis and Slaughter for Food.@pCase 47. Conflict of Interest.@pCase 48. Rabies Vaccine for Livestock.@pCase 49. Female Veterinarian Receiving Unwelcome Attention.@pCase 50. Female Veterinarian Offended by Colleagues’ Humor.@pCase 51. Client Refuses Euthanasia for Sick Cat.@pCase 52. Should Veterinarians Prescribe Drugs to Increase Productivity?.@pCase 53. Previous Practitioner Leaves Sponge in Dog’s Peritoneum.@pCase 54. Illicit Importation of Boar Semen.@pCase 55. Misreading of Radiograph.@pCase 56. Cattery Serving as Source of FIP.@pCase 57. Injured, Unowned Animal.@pCase 58. Writing Prescriptions for Branded Drugs in Return for Financial.@pIncentive.@pCase 59. Negligence of an Emergency Clinician in Treating Trauma, xx.@pCase 60. Poor Air Quality in Swine Barn.@pCase 61. Supplementing Income with Prescription Drugs.@pCase 62. Client’s Request to Euthanize His Dog after His Death.@pCase 63. Confidentiality and an Employee’s History of Drug Abuse.@pCase 64. Convenience Euthanasia of a Dog without Proper Permission.@pCase 65. Veterinarian Who Ignores Roundworms in Puppies.@pCase 66. Stray Tattooed Beagle.@pCase 67. Prescribing and Selling Pharmaceuticals.@pCase 68. Suspected Poisoning.@pCase 69. Euthanasia of Research Animal without Researcher’s Permission.@pCase 70. Anorexic Client Not Feeding Her Dog.@pCase 71. Improving Rural Euthanasia.@pCase 72. Second Commentary on Stray Tattooed Beagle.@pCase 73. Bull Mastiff with Osteosarcoma.@pCase 74. Financially Stressed Client and Annual Physical.@pCase 75. Botched Caesarean Section.@pCase 76. Farmer Asking Advice of "Experts".@pCase 77. Confidentiality in the Case of a Client Selling Sick Animals.@pCase 78. Conflict in Obligations to a Peer and a Client.@pCase 79. Reporting a Dog Being Used to Carry Drugs.@pCase 80. An Elderly Client Seeking "Unnecessary" Medical Advice.@pCase 81. A Cat Who Fractures Both Legs after a Surgical Procedure.@pCase 82. Can Annual Vaccinations Be Justified?.@pCase 83. An Organic Farmer Who Won’t Use Antibiotics for Foot Rot.@pCase 84. Using Woodchippers to Kill Chickens.@pCase 85. Should Shelters Place Animals in Less than Perfect Homes?.@pCase 86. Why Should We Worry about Animal Suffering Right before Death?.@pCase 87. "Good" versus "Natural" Death.@pCase 88. Is It Wrong to Modify Animals to Fit Production Systems?.@pCase 89. How Do Veterinarians Respond to Clients with Too Many Animals?.@pCase 90. Should a Veterinarian Wear Company Logos?.@pCase 91. Technicians Performing Management Procedures on Farm.@pCase 92. Extralabel Drug Use.@pCase 93. Animal Welfare versus Animal Rights.@pCase 94. Raw Diet.@pCase 95. Using an Elastrator on Older Bulls.@pCase 96. Finding Animals for Continuing Education.@pCase 97. Should Veterinarians Support Activist Groups?.@pCase 98. Auditability of Animal Welfare.@pCase 99. Producer Unwilling to Euthanize Sick Pigs.@pCase 100. Veterinarians and Laws Banning Pitbulls.@pCase 101. Giving Analgesics to Mask Pain in Horses.@pCase 102. Are Animals Raised in Confinement Happy in Confinement?.@pCase 103. Elderly Couple Adopting Many Animals.@pCase 104. The Ethics of Killing Healthy Animals.@pAppendix.@pReferences.@pIndex
