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Ethical dilemmas faced in practice
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
veterinary record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 2042-7670
pISSN - 0042-4900
DOI - 10.1136/vr.f5487
Subject(s) - welfare , animal welfare , engineering ethics , environmental ethics , sociology , political science , veterinary medicine , medicine , law , engineering , philosophy , biology , ecology
The terms ‘ethics’ and ‘welfare’ are often used in the veterinary sphere. Jen Hall, the young graduate representative on BVA Council, says that, as a farm animal practitioner, she is faced with ethical dilemmas on a daily basis and, more often than not, these are related to welfare.