For our children
Subtitle: the ethics of animal experimentation in the age of genetic engineering
By: Anders Nordgren
Series: Value inquiry book series -- v. 215. -- Values in bioethics
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9789042028043
Subjects: Bioethical Issues; Moral and ethical aspects; Animal experimentation; Animal Welfare; Animal genetic engineering; Animal Experimentation; Genetically Modified Animals; Ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-193) and index.

Gift of Philosophers Index
Table of contents: title: 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; title: Five ethical prototypes of animal experimentation. Human dominion ; Equal consideration of interests ; Animal rights ; Strong human priority ; Weak human priority ; A spectrum of views; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: Genetically modified animals in research. Implications of the five prototypes ; Scientific concerns ; Intrinsic ethical concerns ; Animal welfare concerns ; Ethical trade-off : four cases.