Overview

Advanced biomedical techniques such as genetic engineering are used extensively in animal related research and development. As the pace of development has quickened, there has been growing public anxiety about the ethical issues involved. This volume draws together some of the leading themes and issues which have emerged in the recent debates surrounding biotechnology as applied to animals. With contributions from authors of many different viewpoints, the subject is given a thorough treatment. Among those to whom the book should be of interest are practitioners of animal biotechnology, and those whose interest lies in assessing its credentials, such as philosophers and social or political scientists. It should also appeal to policy-makers and pressure groups, as well as to more general readers. The strong chapters on the legal and regulatory framework should make it useful to those involved in advising on company policy, patenting or litigation.

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Author:   Alan J. Holland ,  Andrew Johnson
Publisher:   Chapman and Hall
Imprint:   Chapman and Hall
Edition:   1998 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.540kg
ISBN:  

9780412756801

ISBN 10:   0412756803
Pages:   351
Publication Date:   30 November 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- One Scientific Procedures and their Applications.- 2 Methods for genetic modification in farm animals and humans: present procedures and future opportunities.- 3 Animal biotechnology in medicine.- 4 Biotechnology in animal agriculture.- 5 The effects of biotechnology on animal welfare.- Two The Social Context.- 6 Why biotechnology?.- 7 Campaigning against transgenic technology.- 8 Consensus conferences and technological animals.- 9 The inevitability of animal biotechnology? Ethics and the scientific attitude.- 10 Needs, fears and fantasies.- Three Ethical and Conceptual Issues.- 11 Intervention, humility and animal integrity.- 12 On telos and genetic engineering.- 13 Intrinsic value and transgenic animals.- 14 Organs for transplant: animals, moral standing, and one view of the ethics of xenotransplantation.- 15 Making up animals: the view from science fiction.- 16 Species are dead. Long live genes!.- Four Policy and Regulation.- 17 Biotechnology policy: four ethical problems and three political solutions.- 18 Advisory considerations on the scientific basis of the food safety evaluation of transgenic animals.- 19 Legislation and regulation: a view from the UK.- 20 Animal patenting: European law and the ethical implications.- 21 Controls on the care and use of experimental animals.- Five Concluding Essay.- 22 Ethics, society and policy: a way forward.

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