title: The moral basis of animal-assisted therapy.
abstract: Is nonhuman animal-assisted therapy (AAT) a form of exploitation? After exploring possible moral vindications of AAT and after establishing a distinction between "use" and "exploitation," the essay distinguishes between forms of animal-assisted therapy that are morally unobjectionable and those modes of it that ought to be abolished.
authors.affiliation: The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: Tzachi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zamir
mesh_terms: D000827:Animal Welfare / Q000941:ethics*; D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic; D026689:Ethical Analysis; D001841:Human-Animal Bond; D006801:Humans; D026706:Paternalism; D010684:Philosophy; D013045:Species Specificity; D013812:Therapeutics / Q000379:methods*; D014789:Visitors to Patients