A dialogue on species-specific rights: Humans and animals in bioethics

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 435-444

  Thomasma, David C ^a   Loewy, Erich H ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL RIGHTS; BIOETHICS; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; BRAIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; MENTAL STRESS; MORALITY; PERSONHOOD; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMAL RIGHTS; ANIMALS; BIOETHICS; BRAIN DISEASES; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; MORALS; PERSONHOOD; SOCIAL VALUES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0031228594     PISSN: 09631801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0963180100008161     Document Type: Article

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