Companion Animal Ethics: A Special Area of Moral Theory and Practice?

Considerations of ethical questions regarding pets should take into account the nature of human-pet relationships, in particular the uniquely combined features of mutual companionship, quasi-family-membership, proximity, direct contact, privacy, dependence, and partiality. The approaches to ethical...

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Published in:Ethical Theory & Moral Practice Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 347 - 360
Main Authors: Yeates, James, Savulescu, Julian
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Apr2017
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          Oxford UEHIRO Centre for Practical Ethics , University of Oxford , Oxford UK
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        Human-animal relationships
        Ethics
        Fellowship
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        Professional ethics of veterinarians
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        Animal ethics
        Companion animals
        Family ethics
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        Veterinary ethics
      ab: Considerations of ethical questions regarding pets should take into account the nature of human-pet relationships, in particular the uniquely combined features of mutual companionship, quasi-family-membership, proximity, direct contact, privacy, dependence, and partiality. The approaches to ethical questions about pets should overlap with those of animal ethics and family ethics (and, for veterinary issues, with healthcare ethics), and so need not represent an isolated field of enquiry, but rather the intersection of those more established fields. This intersection, and the questions of how we treat our pets, present several unique concerns and approaches for focused examination.
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