Animal Biotechnology and Ethics

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Methods for genetic modification in farm animals and humans: present procedures and future opportunities....Pages 13-26
Animal biotechnology in medicine....Pages 27-49
Biotechnology in animal agriculture....Pages 50-68
The effects of biotechnology on animal welfare....Pages 69-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Why biotechnology?....Pages 85-91
Campaigning against transgenic technology....Pages 92-102
Consensus conferences and technological animals....Pages 103-113
The inevitability of animal biotechnology? Ethics and the scientific attitude....Pages 114-132
Needs, fears and fantasies....Pages 133-142
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Intervention, humility and animal integrity....Pages 145-155
On telos and genetic engineering....Pages 156-171
Intrinsic value and transgenic animals....Pages 172-189
Organs for transplant: animals, moral standing, and one view of the ethics of xenotransplantation....Pages 190-208
Making up animals: the view from science fiction....Pages 209-224
Species are dead. Long live genes!....Pages 225-240
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
Biotechnology policy: four ethical problems and three political solutions....Pages 243-264
Advisory considerations on the scientific basis of the food safety evaluation of transgenic animals Daniel....Pages 265-275
Legislation and regulation: a view from the UK....Pages 276-287
Animal patenting: European law and the ethical implications....Pages 288-302
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
Controls on the care and use of experimental animals....Pages 303-321
Front Matter....Pages 323-323
Ethics, society and policy: a way forward....Pages 325-339
Back Matter....Pages 341-351