One Health: Many Patients? A Short Theory on What Makes an Animal a Patient

Grimm, Herwig; Huth, Martin

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“…In many theories of veterinary ethics, we find the implicit or explicit assumption that ethical dilemmas among professionals frequently result from conflicts between the animal's health-related interests and the owner's perspective or decision-making (Grimm and Huth, 2017). As a paradigmatic example, we can take Bernard Rollin's broadly received distinction between the model of the mechanic and the model of the paediatrician (2006).…”

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1. Food justice, food security, and climate engineering

Kortetmäki

2021

Justice and Food Security in a Changing Climate

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Both the planning of EurSafe2021 and the origin of this book were profoundly influenced by the Covid-19 pandemic, and we are extremely pleased to see that so many contributions still arrived. We would like to thank all authors for sharing their work and insights and all reviewers for their muchappreciated expertise on the vast range of topics. We are grateful for the support and encouragement received from the EurSafe board and Svenja Springer, in preparing this conference despite the challenging circumstances. Our special thanks go to

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Section: Introduction: Is the Triad Of Veterinarian-owner-animal Taken Seriously?mentioning

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1. Food justice, food security, and climate engineering

Kortetmäki

2021

Justice and Food Security in a Changing Climate

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“…This overarching obligation plays a major role in the context of human medicine, understood as ‘patient centred practice’. This approach is also evident in veterinary companion animal practice, where the health of the animal patient and its best interests are the main focus 2–9 . This patient‐centred practice is increasingly important with the changing status of animals in our societies 4 5 10 11 …”

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Drawing the line in clinical treatment of companion animals: recommendations from an ethics working party

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Modern veterinary medicine offers numerous options for treatment and clinicians must decide on the best one to use. Interventions causing short-term harm but ultimately benefitting the animal are often justified as being in the animal’s best interest. Highly invasive clinical veterinary procedures with high morbidity and low success rates may not be in the animal’s best interest. A working party was set up by the European College of Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia to discuss the ethics of clinical veterinary practice and improve the approach to ethically challenging clinical cases. Relevant literature was reviewed. The ‘best interest principle’ was translated into norms immanent to the clinic by means of the ‘open question argument’. Clinical interventions with potential to cause harm need ethical justification, and suggest a comparable structure of ethical reflection to that used in the context of in vivo research should be applied to the clinical setting. To structure the ethical debate, pertinent questions for ethical decision-making were identified. These were incorporated into a prototype ethical tool developed to facilitate clinical ethical decision-making. The ethical question ‘Where should the line on treatment be drawn’ should be replaced by ‘How should the line be drawn?’

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“…Common approaches to the problem borrow from human medicine and analogize the animal patient to a child or a comatose adult. Those analogies not only provide interesting parallels worthy of further investigation (Grimm and Huth 2017), but also need to be considered inherent to the ethical landscape in which veterinary medicine is practiced. In speaking of animal patients and medical responsibility towards them, comparisons to human medicine inevitably arise, especially in terms of ethical claims (Rollin 2006).…”

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Meeting the Patient’s Interest in Veterinary Clinics. Ethical Dimensions of the 21st Century Animal Patient

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Grimm

2017

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The main objective of this paper is to introduce the concept of the Banimal patient^to academic debates on animal ethics, veterinary ethics and medical ethics. This move reflects the prioritization of the animal patient in the veterinary profession's own current ethical self-conception. Our paper contributes to the state of research by analysing the conceptual prerequisites for the constitution and understanding of animals as patients through the lens of two concepts fundamental to the medical field: health and disease. The first section describes, how these concepts are inextricably entangled with the animal's becoming a patient. The understanding of health and disease, we determine, has a great impact on the actual treatment of animals as patients. We show that a naturalistic perspective on health and disease still prevails in the veterinary field. By contrast, we use a historical study to demonstrate how a socio-historical perspective on animal diseases enriches our understanding of veterinary practice and its ethical dimensions. This perspective will prove not only able to deal with the wide variety of veterinary patients, but also to release underlying normative processes to ethical reflection and research. We elaborate on that assertion by spelling out the constructive dimension between the veterinary gaze and the objects of its experience. The final section brings veterinary medicine's ethical relationship to the animal patient into the picture. The discipline is guided by an ethical principle of advocacy, defined as the responsibility to recognise and defend the animal patient's interest in health. Our principle conclusion is that ethical philosophical thinking on interactions between specific notions of health and disease and animal patients makes a substantial contribution to surmounting this moral challenge. As 'health' and 'disease' determine the options for the articulation of an animal patient's interest, investigation into the ever-changing and particular conceptualisations of these notions fosters its recognition. We conclude with a prospect resulting from those theoretical insights: meeting the animal patient's interest Food ethics (2018)

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One Health: Many Patients? A Short Theory on What Makes an Animal a Patient

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

1. Food justice, food security, and climate engineering

1. Food justice, food security, and climate engineering

Drawing the line in clinical treatment of companion animals: recommendations from an ethics working party

Meeting the Patient’s Interest in Veterinary Clinics. Ethical Dimensions of the 21st Century Animal Patient

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