Veterinary Controversies and Ethical Dilemmas

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Provocative Reflections on Clinical Practice

by Tanya Stephens, R. Eddie Clutton, Polly Taylor, Kathy Murphy

1st Edition

Publisher: CRC Press

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Print ISBN	9781032579863
eText ISBN	9781040369586
Publisher	CRC Press
Publishing Year	2025
Edition	1st Edition
Language	English
Pages	420

Veterinary Controversies and Ethical Dilemmas, 1st Edition, offers a clear examination of modern clinical conflicts and professional responsibilities in veterinary care. Designed for undergraduate veterinary students and active practitioners, this textbook addresses how clinical choices intersect with corporate pressures, client expectations, and animal welfare obligations.

The core coverage addresses overdiagnosis, overtreatment, and the economic shifts tied to anthropomorphism in companion animal care. Specific sections assess research conducted on client-owned animals, unregulated therapeutic options, and changing dynamics in end-of-life decisions like euthanasia. Additional chapters compare commercial business ethics against traditional professional duties while examining moral stress and mental health in clinical teams.

Published by CRC Press as part of the CRC One Health One Welfare series, the volume combines international contributor accounts with evidence-based analysis across 420 pages. Including six color and three black-and-white illustrations, the text gives educators structured material to stimulate undergraduate classroom discussions on veterinary duty of care.

Chapter 1: Veterinary controversies and ethical dilemmas: an introduction
Chapter 2: Veterinary killing: history and ethics
Chapter 3: The law, animals, and veterinarians
Chapter 4: Sentient beings: our duty of care. Who are our patients?
Chapter 5: Let’s all march for (veterinary) science: veterinary science in a post truth society
Chapter 6: Just because we can doesn’t mean we should
Chapter 7: Overdiagnosis
Chapter 8: Do you want bloods with that?
Chapter 9: Oncology and ethics
Chapter 10: Small animal overtreatment: intensive care
Chapter 11: Innovation versus experiment: experiments on pets?
Chapter 12: Veterinary ethical review – a multitude of questions
Chapter 13: Can considering laboratory animal legislation improve animal welfare in innovative veterinary practice?
Chapter 14: Why believe in magic? The use of ineffective therapies has animal welfare and ethical implications
Chapter 15: Should complementary and alternative veterinary medicine be considered malpractice? An ethical-legal analysis
Chapter 16: Pointless supplements and ‘therapeutic’ pet foods
Chapter 17: Zoo vet dilemmas – a personal perspective
Chapter 18: The value of mice
Chapter 19: Problems with pedigrees: righteous rage and the need for nuance
Chapter 20: Ageing pets and physical rehabilitation
Chapter 21: Veterinary education and the changing profession
Chapter 22: The art of veterinary science
Chapter 23: Veterinary academia, specialization, and animal welfare
Chapter 24: What are general practitioners good for?
Chapter 25: Do vets need to love animals?
Chapter 26: It is time to ditch the gold standard
Chapter 27: Informed consent – in whose interests?
Chapter 28: The death of veterinary euthanasia
Chapter 29: Moral stress, emotional labour and mental health in the veterinary profession
Chapter 30: The customer isn’t always right: why business ethics is not professional ethics
Chapter 31: Corporatisation: do shareholders care about animal welfare?
Chapter 32: Costs of veterinary services as an animal welfare issue
Chapter 33: Anthropomorphism in veterinary practice
Chapter 34: Going to extremes: high financial cost, overtreatment and palliative care
Chapter 35: Give the dog a bone
Chapter 36: Is the veterinary profession encouraging exploitation of horses in sport?
Chapter 37: Vets speaking up for animal welfare
Chapter 38: An approach to ethical conflicts in practice