Anthropology, Education, Sociology, and Social Phenomena

Animal Rights

The moral and ethical bases of the protection of animals from cruelty and abuse. The rights are extended to domestic animals, laboratory animals, and wild animals.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

The moral and ethical bases of the protection of animals from cruelty and abuse. The rights are extended to domestic animals, laboratory animals, and wild animals.

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Synonyms

2 entry terms
  • Rights, Animal
  • Speciesism

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Aspects Covered

6 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings economics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

refers to domestic, laboratory or wild animals; ANIMAL WELFARE is also available

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History Note

93; was see ANIMAL WELFARE 1986-92; SPECIESISM was see ANIMAL WELFARE 1987-92

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Previous Indexing

  • Animal Welfare (1986-1992)

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  1. I01w.880w.604.100w.100w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Animal Rights. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D017087. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D017087
  2. Animal Rights. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_rights
  3. Animal Rights. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q426