The Human Use of Animals

F. Barbara Orlans, Ph.D., is Senior Research Fellow at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.Tom L. Beauchamp, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy and Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University.Rebecca Dresser, J.D., holds a joint appointment as Professor in the School of Law and the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.David B. Morton, B.V.Sc., Ph.D., M.R.C.V.S., is Professor of Biomedical Science and Biomedical Ethics at the University of Birmingham, England.John P. Gluck, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM.

• I. Introduction ; 1. Moral Issues About Animals ; II. Biomedical Research ; 2. Baboon-Human Liver Transplants: The Pittsburgh Case ; 3. Head Injury Experiments on Primates at the University of Pennsylvania ; 4. Patenting Animals: The Harvard "Oncomouse" ; 5. What Does the Public Have a Right to Know? ; III. Cosmetic Safety Testing ; 6. Beauty Without the Beast ; IV. Behavioral Research ; 7. Apes and Language: Washoe and Her Successors ; 8. Can Animal Aggression be Studied in an Ethical Manner? ; 9. Monkeys Without Mothers ; V. Wildlife Research ; 10. The Death of a Vagrant Bird ; VI. Educational Teaching ; 11. Dissection of Frogs: The Jennifer Graham Case ; VII. Food and Farming ; 12. Force-Feeding of Geese ; 13. Veal Crates and Human Palates ; 14. Fowl Deeds ; VIII. Companion Animals ; 15. Should the Tail Wag the Dog? ; 16. From Where Should Research Scientists Get their Dogs? ; IX. Religious Rites ; 17. Animal Sacrifice as Religious Ritual: The Santeria Case

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