Animal Welfare in Veterinary Practice (eBook)

James Yeates (Autor)

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2012
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-46371-0 (ISBN)

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A practical guide to help veterinarians improve the welfare of their patients in their everyday work. A concise and accessible introduction to welfare that is both interesting and valuable in practice.

The book describes ways to evaluate patients, develop in-practice quality of life assessments, resolve difficult clinical dilemmas, and turn good decisions into real welfare outcomes. It reviews available scientific information, legal issues and ethical dilemmas, and relates these to everyday case studies throughout. It provides ways for all veterinary professionals to develop their animal welfare understanding, without assuming prior knowledge, while advancing the wisdom and abilities of experienced practitioners.

Key features:

• Presents practical and realistic methods for working with owners to improve patients' welfare within the constraints of everyday practice.
• Provides useful advice for work within many legal jurisdictions.
• Includes summaries of research, vital references, and further reading sources.
• Key points are recapped at the end of each chapter.

Suitable for all those working in the veterinary and related professions, including veterinarians, veterinary nurses, animal welfare scientists, animal behaviourists, paraprofessionals and lay staff.

Published as a part of the prestigious Wiley-Blackwell - UFAW Animal Welfare series. UFAW, founded 1926, is an internationally recognised, independent, scientific and educational animal welfare charity. For full details of all titles available in the UFAW series, please visit www.wiley.com/go/ufaw.

James Yeates BVSc BSc DWEL DipECVS(AWBM) PhD MRCVS is Chief Veterinary Officer at the RSPCA. He is an active member of the animal welfare research community, and publishes on topics including animal welfare concepts and companion animal welfare assessment. He is Chair of the British Veterinary Association (BVA) Ethics and Welfare Group and British Small Animal Veterinary Association Welfare Committee, as well as being editor of the Journal of Animal Welfare Science, Ethics and Law. He has also lectured on animal welfare at undergraduate and postgraduate level across UK universities.

Inhalt

Animal Welfare in Veterinary Practice 5
Copyright 6
Contents 7
Foreword by Carl Padgett 9
Foreword by David Main 11
Preface 13
1 Patients 15
1.1 Animal Welfare Accounts 15
1.2 Animal Welfare Accountability 18
1.3 Animal Welfare Responsibility 21
1.4 Legal and Professional Responsibilities 23
1.5 Science 24
1.6 Achieving and Avoiding 26
1.7 Feelings 29
1.8 Inferring Feelings 33
1.9 Pathological Causes of Feelings 37
1.10 Iatrogenic Causes of Feelings 39
1.11 Beyond Health 42
Selected further reading 44
2 Clients 47
2.1 Owner Causes of Feelings 47
2.2 Owners and the Law 52
2.3 Owner–Animal Relationships 54
2.4 Owner Decision-Making 56
2.5 Owner Benefits to Improving Welfare 59
2.6 Owner Barriers and Biases 61
2.7 Vet–Client Relationships 63
2.8 Money Problems 65
Selected further reading 67
3 Welfare Assessment 69
3.1 Patient Assessment 69
INFORMATION 72
3.2 Histories 72
3.3 Clinical Examinations 76
3.4 Further Investigations 81
INTERPRETATION 84
3.5 Empathy and Knowledge 84
3.6 Induction and Deduction 87
EVALUATION 90
3.7 Qualitative Welfare Evaluation 90
3.8 Quantitative Welfare Evaluation 96
3.9 Future Welfare Evaluation 99
Selected further reading 101
4 Clinical Choices 103
4.1 Welfare-Focused Choices 103
THE ANIMALS 106
4.2 Individual Patients 106
4.3 Decisions Affecting Multiple Patients 112
4.4 Decisions Also Affecting Non-Patient Animals 113
THE HUMANS 115
4.5 Oneself 115
4.6 Colleagues 118
4.7 Clients 119
4.8 Joint Decision-Making 122
Selected further reading 125
5 Achieving Animal Welfare Goals 127
5.1 Tackling Pathological and Iatrogenic Causes of Feelings 127
5.2 Tackling Owner Causes of Feelings 131
5.3 Improving Owners’ Assessments 134
5.4 Improving Owners’ Evaluations and Choices 137
5.5 Improving Owners’ Achievements 140
5.6 Money Solutions 142
5.7 Legal Solutions 145
5.8 Colleagues 147
5.9 Working on Oneself 150
Selected further reading 155
6 Beyond the Clinic 157
6.1 Beyond Patients 157
6.2 Beyond Clients 160
6.3 Professional Cooperation 161
6.4 Professional Collaboration 164
6.5 Professional Barriers and Biases 167
6.6 Veterinary Welfare Surveillance 169
6.7 Veterinary Welfare Research 174
6.8 Veterinary Welfare Education 177
6.9 Next Steps 179
Selected further reading 180
References 183
Index 207

Rezensionen

"This book is well written, well presented and sensibly
priced and should find a wide readership within and without the
veterinary profession and will be of value to the animal welfare
community at large." (AWSELVA Journal, 1 May 2013)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.12.2012
• Reihe/Serie: UFAW Animal Welfare
• Reihe/Serie: UFAW Animal Welfare
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie
• Themenwelt: Veterinärmedizin
• Schlagworte: accessible • animal • Animal Welfare, Ethics & Law • Assessments • Book • concise • describes • Develop • difficult • Dilemmas • Everyday • Guide • IMPROVE • inpractice • interesting • Introduction • Life • patients • Practical • Practice • practice isa • quality • Tierschutz • Tierschutz, Ethik u. Recht • Veterinärmedizin • veterinarians • Veterinärmedizin • Veterinary • Veterinary Medicine • Ways
• ISBN-10: 1-118-46371-4 / 1118463714
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-46371-0 / 9781118463710