This chapter features veterinarians as they made ethical decisions: how decisions affect them personally as they think as moral practitioners.

The study presented in this chapter examines visitor experiences at elephant sanctuaries in an era where animal ethics has taken centre stage. The study unpacks the moral tensions surrounding such attractions through analysis of social media comments by visitors. Based on this study a framework is...

This chapter is an introduction to the concept of ethics in the field of veterinary medicine and highlights the role of ethics in cases where veterinarians are face with moral issues as they handle various challenges in treating sick animals.

This chapter looks at the factors that influences decision making among veterinarians such as emotional intelligence, spiritual guidance, moral values, and spotting of logical lesions (ethical thinking).

This chapter looks at the benefits as well as some constraints when veterinarians tries to implement their decisions on certain cases. This chapter also explains one's ethical views in particular cases. This involves identifying what facts, values and reasoning were relevant to one's decision, how...

This chapter present guidelines for veterinarians doing animal research. These tips include: deciding whether to undertake animal research; selecting which animal to study; and finally deciding on what to learn and teach.

This chapter describes the role of decision making, ethics, morality and professionalism on the development and implementation of a policy for veterinarians regarding animal health and welfare.

Based on three years of ethnographic fieldwork including participant observation, site inspections within the forbidden 'red zone' of towns such as Norcia, Amatrice and Campi, and interviews with locals, administrators, tourism industry workers, and clergy, this chapter examines the physical and...

In Ireland, cillíní ('mini cemeteries' or 'angel plots') were designated as 'non-sacred' places where infants and young children who had died without baptism were laid to rest. Since Medieval times, these 'holy angels' were denied burial in Roman Catholic cemeteries. Not having been properly...

This chapter sketches a perspective addressing three questions: First, how did holidays become conspicuous moral terrain? Second, is this a progressive development? Third, is mass tourism per se (from all-inclusive packages through to volunteer tourism) worthy of celebration in moral terms? In...