Institution: Colorado State University, Fort Collins,
CO 80523
Course Title: Veterinary Medical Ethics
Instructors: Bernard Rollin and A. P. Knight, 970-491-6315
Summary: This pioneering course, implemented in 1978, is
required in the veterinary medicine curriculum at Colorado State
University. It deals with ethical theory, animal welfare, and
animal rights. View
Course Syllabus
Institution: Colorado State University, Fort Collins,
CO 80523
Course Title: Proper Care and Use of Laboratory Animals
Instructors: Bernard Rollin and Martha L. Kesel, 970-491-6315
Summary: An approach to ethical and practical issues that
arise in the course of doing animal research. Topics include animal
pain and distress, anesthesia, analgesia, euthanasia, surgical
technique, and trying to justify animal research.
Status: Taught on an occasional basis.
Institution: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4801
Course Title: Biomedical Ethics and Clinical Genetics (VTMED
527)
Instructor: John Edward Saidla, Veterinary Medicine, Pop.
Medicine & Diagnostic Science, 607-253-3201, [email protected]
Summary: This course enters into a study of ethical issues
related to animal use, animal welfare, animal genetics, clinical
application of genetics, genetics counseling, and clinical day-to-day
ethics.
Institution: Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331
Course Title: Veterinary Medical Ethics
Instructors: Jill Parker, Large Animal Surgery, College
of Veterinary Medicine 541-737-6949; Courtney Campbell, Department
of Philosophy, Director of the Program for Ethics, Science, and
the Environment, 541-737-6196
Summary: This is an intensive elective course that offers
an introduction to ethics in veterinary medicine, with specific
attention to the moral status of animals, the process of ethical
reasoning, and ethical decision making in practice.
Institution: Tuskegee University, College of Veterinary
Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Tuskegee, AL 36088
Course Title: Human-Animal Relationships Rotation
Instructor: Sue-Ellen Brown, Psy. D. and Caroline B. Schaffer,
D.V.M., 334-727-8122 [email protected],
[email protected]
Summary: This clinical rotation is designed to give third-year
veterinary medical students the opportunity to learn communication
and interpersonal skills that will enhance their professional
interactions with animals and people.
Institution: University of California, Davis, School of
Veterinary Medicine, Davis, CA 95616
Course Title: Human-Animal Interactions: Benefits and Issues
(PHR 106)
Instructor: Professor Lynette Hart, 530-757-8444
Summary: The contributions of animals to human society,
including historic, anthropologic, developmental, human health
and therapeutic perspectives, as well as the effects of humans
on animals.
Institution: University of California, Davis, School of
Veterinary Medicine, Davis, CA 95616
Course Title: Human-Animal Interaction in Veterinary Science
(PHR 406)
Instructor: Professor Lynette Hart, 530-757-8444
Summary: From the perspectives of veterinarians and their
clients' needs. Human relationships with companion animals, and
secondarily, on food, laboratory, and wild animals. Emphasis on
the benefits of companion animals for human mental and physical
well-being, the role of animals in the human life cycle, societal
traditions in keeping animals, and types of specialized and more
typical relationships with animals.
Institution: University of California, Davis, School of
Veterinary Medicine, Davis, CA 95616
Course Title: Behavior and Biology of Mice as Domestic
Animals (PHR 408)
Instructor: Professor Lynette Hart, 530-757-8444
Summary: Background and current issues in laboratory mouse
biology and welfare, including the development and purposes of
specialized strains of mice, constraints on their care and environmental
enrichment, relevant legislation and regulation, and the human
benefits of their use.
Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
PA 19104-6010
Course Title: Veterinary Ethical Issues (#9009)
Instructor: James Serpell, Department of Clinical Studies,
School of Veterinary Medicine, 215-898-1004, [email protected]
Summary: A core course for first year vet students that
addresses/introduces the peculiar ethical dilemmas encountered
by practicing veterinarians. Combines both didactic and case-based
teaching methods; the latter focusing primarily on "real-life"
ethical conflicts of interest between veterinarians, their clients,
and their patients.
Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
PA 19104-6010
Course Title: Animals, Veterinarians and Society (#9823)
Instructor: James Serpell, Department of Clinical Studies,
School of Veterinary Medicine, 215-898-1004, [email protected]
Summary: This third-year elective course aims to introduce
veterinarians to the current debate on animal use and includes
the following topics: history of ethical concerns about animal
use; development of contemporary attitudes to animals; animal
consciousness and sentience; animal rights; animal welfare science;
animals and the law; welfare problems in companion animals; and
various recent areas of discussion and debate ( e.g., cloning/bioengineering).
Institution: Washington State University, Pullman, WA
99164
Course Title: Professional Orientation and Ethics
Instructor: Francois Martin, [email protected]
Summary: This first-year required class examines the connection
between veterinary medicine and related fields (pet loss and grief,
cycle of violence, ethical decision making, legal issues, animal
rights and animal welfare, etc.) This course features several
guest speakers.
