Animal Welfare in Veterinary Practice

James Yeates author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:1st Feb '13

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Animal Welfare in Veterinary Practice cover

A practical guide to help veterinarians improve the welfare of their patients in their everyday work. A concise and accessible introduction to welfare that is both interesting and valuable in practice.

The book describes ways to evaluate patients, develop in-practice quality of life assessments, resolve difficult clinical dilemmas, and turn good decisions into real welfare outcomes. It reviews available scientific information, legal issues and ethical dilemmas, and relates these to everyday case studies throughout. It provides ways for all veterinary professionals to develop their animal welfare understanding, without assuming prior knowledge, while advancing the wisdom and abilities of experienced practitioners.

Key features:

  • Presents practical and realistic methods for working with owners to improve patients' welfare within the constraints of everyday practice.
  • Provides useful advice for work within many legal jurisdictions.
  • Includes summaries of research, vital references, and further reading sources.
  • Key points are recapped at the end of each chapter.

Suitable for all those working in the veterinary and related professions, including veterinarians, veterinary nurses, animal welfare scientists, animal behaviourists, paraprofessionals and lay staff.

Published as a part of the prestigious Wiley-Blackwell – UFAW Animal Welfare series. UFAW, founded 1926, is an internationally recognised, independent, scientific and educational animal welfare charity. For full details of all titles available in the UFAW series, please visit www.wiley.com/go/ufaw.

“This book is well written, well presented and sensibly priced and should find a wide readership within and without the veterinary profession and will be of value to the animal welfare community at large." (AWSELVA Journal, 1 May 2013)

ISBN: 9781444334876

Dimensions: 244mm x 173mm x 10mm

Weight: 431g

212 pages