Care as an Alternative to Euthanasia? Reconceptualizing Veterinary Palliative and End-of-life Care.
Palliative care is routinely offered to humans in the United Kingdom, while euthanasia remains illegal. The converse is true for nonhuman animals (henceforth animals). Indeed, euthanasia is widely accepted as the appropriate course of action for "suffering" animals, and for those whose behaviors or...
| Published in: | Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 33; no. 1; pp. 138 - 156 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2019
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