Reflecting on ethical and legal issues in wildlife disease

Bioethics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 336-347

  McCallum, Hamish ^a   Hocking, Barbara Ann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; BLEEDING DISORDER; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EBOLA VIRUS; ECOSYSTEM; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HENDRA VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFECTION CONTROL; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; RABIES VIRUS; REVIEW; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TUBERCULOSIS; VACCINATION; WILDLIFE;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; AUSTRALIA; BIOETHICAL ISSUES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HUMANS; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POPULATION CONTROL; ZOONOSES;

EID: 23944454480     PISSN: 02699702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2005.00447.x     Document Type: Review

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