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Elsevier Small Animal Infectious Disease An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America Small Animal Practice 1st Edition by Litster, Annette
This issue of Veterinary Clinics: Small Animal Practice, edited by Dr. Annette Litster, is devoted to Small Animal Infectious Disease. Topics in this issue include: The dynamic nature of infectious disease risk in the 21st century: How dog transport impacts prevalence patterns; Dog transport and infectious disease risk: an international perspective; Effect of dog transport on high-risk infectious diseases (e.g. TVT, rabies etc.); H3N8 and H3N2; Feline panleukopenia: a re-emergent disease; Canine Lyme disease immunology; Canine leptospirosis diagnostics; Canine ehrlichiosis in the USA; Cutaneous and Renal Glomerular Vasculopathy (CRGV; Alabama Rot); Vector borne disease panel diagnostics; Feline vector-borne diseases; Canine brucellosis; and Current preventative strategies for rabies. 1.Professional standards and the requirement to be ethical2.Ethics, bioethics and nursing ethics: some working defintions3.Moral theory and the ethical practice of nursing4. Cross cultural ethics and the ethical practice of nursing5.Moral problems and moral decision-making in nursing and health care contexts6.Ethics, dehumanisation and vulnerable populations7.Patients' rights to and in health care8.Ethical issues in mental health care9.Ethical issues in end-of-life care 10.The moral politics of abortion and euthanasia11.Professional judgment, moral quandaries and taking 'appropriate action'12.Professional obligations to report harmful behaviours: risks to patient safety, child abuse and elder abuse13.Nursing ethics futures - challenges in the 21st century