id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_fomw6nf26bbdvjiv4w7xe7aiki Pasqualino Santori Problems related to the use of animals for therapeutic and care purposes. The Document of the National Committee for Bioethics 2011.0 4 .pdf application/pdf 3019 257 56 such matter was that of the subject of "Pet Therapy", generically viewed as a "man-animal" relationship, with the purpose of proving beneficiary to both human health and welfare. Key words: bioethics, health, humans, animals. in 2002 and remaining in office until 2006, was commissioned by the Italian Ministry of Health to contemplate the area of "pet therapy" from a bioethical case of assistance animals and that of those patients The human beings involved are ultimately weak; they are in need of assistance/therapy. the protection (and where necessary, the improvement) of the welfare of those animals involved must and traditional uses of animals in human activities/ The practices of "pet therapy" in most cases would In the animal-assisted therapies, less so in the case of people could therefore affect the relationship between the human patient and the animal co-therapist. the practices that involve animals (and also the ./cache/work_fomw6nf26bbdvjiv4w7xe7aiki.pdf ./txt/work_fomw6nf26bbdvjiv4w7xe7aiki.txt