Animal Biotechnology and Ethics

1998
ISBN: 978-0-412-75680-1
Verlag: Springer US

Buch, Englisch, 351 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1540 g

Advanced biomedical techniques such as genetic engineering are now 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. draws together in one book 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 and balanced treatment.
Among those to whom the book will be of particular interest are practitioners of animal biotechnology, and those whose interest lies in assessing its credentials, such as philosophers and social or political scientists. It also has a great deal to interest policy-makers and pressure groups, as well as more general readers. The strong chapters on the legal and regulatory framework will make it useful to those involved in advising on company policy, patenting or litigation.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnson, Andrew

Holland, Alan J.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierethologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Mikrobiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.