| Series |
Ethics and action
Ethics and action. ^A147888
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| Contents |
Legal welfarism: the consequences of the property status of animals -- Status of animals as property -- Problem: unnecessary suffering and the humane treatment of property -- Dominion of humans over animals, the defects of animals, and the common law -- Two examples of legal welfarism -- Exclusion of animal interests from legal consideration: the doctrine of standing -- Laws and rights: claims, benefits, interests and the instrumental status of animals -- General application of the theory: anticruelty statutes. |
| Contents |
Purposes of anticruelty statutes -- Anticruelty statutes and the protection of the institutionalized exploitation of animals -- Specific application of the theory: the regulation of animal experimentation -- Animal experimentation: animal property and human benefit -- Federal Animal Welfare Act -- Administrative regulation of the Animal Welfare Act -- Animal Welfare Act in the courts -- Alternative to legal welfarism. |
| General note | "Published 1995. Reprinted 2005 with corrections." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-344) and index. |
| LCCN | 94026263 |
| ISBN | 1566392837 |
| ISBN | 9781566392839 |
| ISBN | 1566392845 |
| ISBN | 9781566392846 |
