Animal-assisted therapy
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منابع مشابه
The moral basis of animal-assisted therapy.
Is nonhuman animal-assisted therapy (AAT) a form of exploitation? After exploring possible moral vindications of AAT and after establishing a distinction between "use" and "exploitation," the essay distinguishes between forms of animal-assisted therapy that are morally unobjectionable and those modes of it that ought to be abolished.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Heart Views
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1995-705X
DOI: 10.4103/1995-705x.159228