BOOKS: Veterinary Ethics: An Introduction
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2000:
Veterinary Ethics: An Introduction
Edited by Giles Legood
Contiuum (370 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10017), 2000.
192 pages, paperback. $23.95
“The Reverend Giles Legood,” editor
of Veterinary Ethics, “is Chaplain and
Honorary Lecturer in Veterinary Ethics at the
Royal Veterinary College, University of
London,” the back cover warns––an example
of why one should not judge a book by the
cover, because Veterinary Ethics is neither a
sermon nor mere academic philosophizing.
The worst one might fairly say of
Legood and his contributing authors is that
they are not as entertaining as Bernard Rollin,
whose lectures at Colorado State University
and elsewhere over the past 20 years have virtually
created the field of veterinary ethics.