Rollin B. - An Introduction to Veterinary Medical Ethics

An Introduction to Veterinary Medical Ethics

Rollin B.

ISBN: 9780813803999
Vydavatelství: Blackwell
Rok vydání: 2006
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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

Table of contents:

Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition

Part I. Theory
Social, Personal, and Professional Ethics
Ethics1 and Ethics2
Ethical Vectors in Veterinary Medicine
The Anatomy of Ethical Decision Making
The Nature of Ethical Theory
Effecting Ethical Change
The Fundamental Question of Veterinary Ethics
New Patterns of Animal Use
Articulating a New Ethic for Animals
Veterinarians and the New Social Ethic for Animals
How Veterinary Medicine Should Respond to the New Ethic: The Case of Animal Research
Veterinarians and Farm Animal Welfare
Recent Progress
Veterinarians and Companion Animal Welfare
Subtle Advantages of Pursuing Companion Animal Welfare
The Changing Role of Companion Animals and Their Value
Pain in Veterinary (and Human) Scientific Medicine
Animal Distress and Animal Happiness
The Ethics of Critical Care
Aesculapian Authority in Veterinary Medicine
The Ethics of Alternative Medicine

Part II. Cases
Introduction
Case 1. Cow with Cancer Eye
Case 2. Substandard Husbandry for Sheep
Case 3. Fracture Fixation
Case 4. Farmer Using Illegal Growth Promotant
Case 5. Client Sells Known BVD Shedders
Case 6. Client Requests Dog Euthanasia Because She Is Moving
Case 7. Farmer Requests a Fetotomy
Case 8. Suspected Dogfighting
Case 9. Docking and Cropping of Dobermans
Case 10. Leaving a Sow Untreated
Case 11. Euthanasia of Cat Who Sprays
Case 12. Euthanasia of Treatable Horse for Insurance
Case 13. Euthanasia of Grieving Dog
Case 14. Supernumerary Teat Removal
Case 15. Breeder Seeking Euthanasia for Puppy with Overbite
Case 16. Veterinary Anatomist Spaying Farm Cats
Case 17. Breeder Asking for Anesthetics So She Can Crop Ears
Case 18. Penicillin Residue in Milk
Case 19. Marketing Heartworm Regimen
Case 20. Dairy Farmers Using Unauthorized Feed Additive Prescribed by a
Veterinarian
Case 21. Veterinarian's Responsibility When a Dog Is Suspected to Be Overly Aggressive
Case 22. Painful Research Designed without Analgesia
Case 23. Clients Who Insist on Continuing Treatment for Failing Cancer Dog
Case 24. Tail Docking in Dairy Cattle
Case 25. Killing of Neonatal Buck Kids
Case 26. Veterinarian Discovers Violations in Religious Slaughter
Case 27. Using Information about Alternative Surgical Training in Hiring
Case 28. Pig Farmer Asking for Euthanasia Solution
Case 29. Feeding Kittens to Snakes
Case 30. Veterinarian Seeking Maternity Leave
Case 31. Surgical Procedures Performed by a Technician
Case 32. Veterinary Liaison with Pet Store Chain Providing Poor Animal Care
Case 33. Freeze-Firing Racehorses
Case 34. Performing Cat Castration on the Farm
Case 35. Irresponsible Veterinarian-Breeder
Case 36. Annual Rabies Vaccination
Case 37. Government Policy Regarding Export of Breeding Swine
Case 38. Improperly Labeled Prescriptions Swallowed by Child
Case 39. Referral Practice "Stealing" Clients
Case 40. Confidentiality and a Breeder Perpetuating a Line of Dogs with Seizures
Case 41. Should Veterinarians Be Required to Report Animal Abuse?
Case 42. Two Cases of Found Dogs
Case 43. Should a Biting Dog Be Adopted Out
Case 44. Euthanizing Sick Animals without their Owner's Permission
Case 45. Partner's Misdiagnosis
Case 46. Heavy Metal Toxicosis and Slaughter for Food
Case 47. Conflict of Interest
Case 48. Rabies Vaccine for Livestock
Case 49. Female Veterinarian Receiving Unwelcome Attention
Case 50. Female Veterinarian Offended by Colleagues' Humor
Case 51. Client Refuses Euthanasia for Sick Cat
Case 52. Should Veterinarians Prescribe Drugs to Increase Productivity?
Case 53. Previous Practitioner Leaves Sponge in Dog's Peritoneum
Case 54. Illicit Importation of Boar Semen
Case 55. Misreading of Radiograph
Case 56. Cattery Serving as Source of FIP
Case 57. Injured, Unowned Animal
Case 58. Writing Prescriptions for Branded Drugs in Return for Financial
Incentive
Case 59. Negligence of an Emergency Clinician in Treating Trauma, xx
Case 60. Poor Air Quality in Swine Barn
Case 61. Supplementing Income with Prescription Drugs
Case 62. Client's Request to Euthanize His Dog after His Death
Case 63. Confidentiality and an Employee's History of Drug Abuse
Case 64. Convenience Euthanasia of a Dog without Proper Permission
Case 65. Veterinarian Who Ignores Roundworms in Puppies
Case 66. Stray Tattooed Beagle
Case 67. Prescribing and Selling Pharmaceuticals
Case 68. Suspected Poisoning
Case 69. Euthanasia of Research Animal without Researcher's Permission
Case 70. Anorexic Client Not Feeding Her Dog
Case 71. Improving Rural Euthanasia
Case 72. Second Commentary on Stray Tattooed Beagle
Case 73. Bull Mastiff with Osteosarcoma
Case 74. Financially Stressed Client and Annual Physical
Case 75. Botched Caesarean Section
Case 76. Farmer Asking Advice of "Experts"
Case 77. Confidentiality in the Case of a Client Selling Sick Animals
Case 78. Conflict in Obligations to a Peer and a Client
Case 79. Reporting a Dog Being Used to Carry Drugs
Case 80. An Elderly Client Seeking "Unnecessary" Medical Advice
Case 81. A Cat Who Fractures Both Legs after a Surgical Procedure
Case 82. Can Annual Vaccinations Be Justified?
Case 83. An Organic Farmer Who Won't Use Antibiotics for Foot Rot
Case 84. Using Woodchippers to Kill Chickens
Case 85. Should Shelters Place Animals in Less than Perfect Homes?
Case 86. Why Should We Worry about Animal Suffering Right before Death?
Case 87. "Good" versus "Natural" Death
Case 88. Is It Wrong to Modify Animals to Fit Production Systems?
Case 89. How Do Veterinarians Respond to Clients with Too Many Animals?
Case 90. Should a Veterinarian Wear Company Logos?
Case 91. Technicians Performing Management Procedures on Farm
Case 92. Extralabel Drug Use
Case 93. Animal Welfare versus Animal Rights
Case 94. Raw Diet
Case 95. Using an Elastrator on Older Bulls
Case 96. Finding Animals for Continuing Education
Case 97. Should Veterinarians Support Activist Groups?
Case 98. Auditability of Animal Welfare
Case 99. Producer Unwilling to Euthanize Sick Pigs
Case 100. Veterinarians and Laws Banning Pitbulls
Case 101. Giving Analgesics to Mask Pain in Horses
Case 102. Are Animals Raised in Confinement Happy in Confinement?
Case 103. Elderly Couple Adopting Many Animals
Case 104. The Ethics of Killing Healthy Animals

Appendix
References
Index