Animal Vulnerability and its Ethical Implications: An Exploration

• Published in: Journal of applied philosophy Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 196 - 216
• Main Author: Martin, Angela K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.05.2021
• Subjects: Animals; Bioethics; Ethics; Morality; Time

While human vulnerability has been discussed for some time in the contemporary philosophy and bioethics literature, animal vulnerability has received less attention. In this article, I investigate whether the concept of vulnerability, as it is currently used in bioethics, can be meaningfully extende...