Defending Animal Rights
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: December 29, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780252074165
Subjects: Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Nature/Ecology; Nature; Philosophy; Nature / Animal Rights; Animal Rights; Animal welfare; Moral and ethical aspects
First sentence: Few areas of applied philosophy have witnessed more dramatic growth in the recent past than has bioethics; moreover, given the pace of advances in the life sciences, from developments in preventive medicine to the cloning of sheep and mice, few areas of ethical concern are likely to grow more dramatically in the foreseeable future.