Animal ethics and animal use in laparoscopic surgery

Ethics of animal use

69 “ethics of animal use” by Peter Sandøe and Stine Christiansen of the University of Copenhagen is one of the first books directly designed to be used as a textbook to teach animal ethics in veterinary and animal science courses at university level. the authors have also prepared an internet based learning tool called “Animal ethics Dilemma”, accessible free of charge at http:// ae.imcode.com/...

Arguments about Animal Ethics

Ethics, Morality and Animal Biotechnology

Two-handed assisted laparoscopic surgery: Evaluation in an animal model.

PURPOSES To evaluate in an animal model the feasibility of a novel concept of hand-assisted surgery consisting of inserting two hands into the abdomen instead of one. The chosen procedure was retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (L-RPLND) that was performed in five pigs. SURGICAL TECHNIQUE A Pfannestiel and a transverse epigastric incisions were made through which both hands were introduced....

Virtue Ethics and Animal Law

This essay explores virtue ethical concepts in the context of animal law theory and practice. For reasons discussed in the essay, virtue ethics may not, on its own, serve as an adequate foundation for general anticruelty statutes, but it may have application in those contexts in which sufficient sharing of values enables participants in legal reform to work through differences in moral commitme...