Animal Rights and Human Morality
- ISBN-10
- 0879751584
- ISBN-13
- 9780879751586
- Category
- Animal rights
- Pages
- 182
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1981
- Author
- Bernard E. Rollin
Description
Rollin offers a fully revised discussion of this white-hot debate over animal rights. Many of Rollin's concerns have taken center stage, and his proposed legislation to protect animals in experimentation has become federal law. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
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