Owners’ informed consent for a necropsy of a companion animal as a conflict-reducing mean in the veterinary practice
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Author(s): Andrzej Dzikowski, Ireneusz Sołtyszewski, Justyna Karaźniewicz, Józef Szarek, Mariusz Zbigniew Felsmann, Beata KosibaSubject(s): Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Akademii Nauk Stosowanych WSGE im. A. De Gasperi w Józefowie
Keywords: animal cadaver; animal welfare; forensic veterinary medicine; posthumous; post-mortem
Summary/Abstract: The authors’ aim is not only to extend research, but also to assist in problem solving actions in every-day veterinary practice. General ethical-and-legal provisionsof conduct of veterinary surgeons are subject to the legal analysis and interpretation(literary, teleological and comparative methods) in terms of owner’s consent foranimal posthumous examination. The work’s novelty reveals itself in the touch of theissues of consent for a post-mortem examination of animals, and not for diagnostictests, pharmacotherapy, and surgical treatment. Means reducing interhuman stress,legal claims, and moral conflicts are discussed; different case-types of irrelevanceand relevance of such consent are revealed and described. Terms of valid informedconsent for an animal necropsy, and its distinct points, which have not been describedyet, are presented. The need of the valid informed consent is revealed.
Journal: Journal of Modern Science
- Issue Year: 45/2020
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 121-141
- Page Count: 21
- Language: English
