Attitudes to Animals
Attitudes to Animals
Attitudes to Animals provides a foundation that the reader can use to make ethical choices about animals. It will challenge readers to question their current views, attitudes, and perspectives on animals and the nature and development of the human-animal relationship. Human perspectives on the human-animal relationship reflect what we have learned, together with spoken and unspoken attitudes and assumptions, from our families, societies, media, education, and employment. This thought-provoking book delves into what it means to be human, what it means to be animal, and the nature of the relationship between them. This is accomplished with philosophical and ethical discussions, scientific evidence, and dynamic theoretical approaches.
- Provides a foundation by which reader can make informed judgements about ethical issues involving animals
- Provides new perspectives on animal welfare, challenging longheld ideas on animals' abilities to feel and cope with pain and deprivation
- Provides practical ways to alleviate suffering and reduce the number of animals used in research and education
Reviews & endorsements
"...one of the most significant social debates in the next century will be about the roles of animals in society-the human-animal bond. This debate began in the 1970s and with the establishment of the 'Animal Protection Movement.' The concept of animal cognition, consciousness and self-awareness is central to this movement. This book contributes significantly to that debate by reviewing current neurophysiological, behavioral and philosophical work relevant to the issue. I believe that it helps bring into better focus some answers about the role animals will play in society in the coming century. It is indeed a thought-provoking book." The Quarterly Review of Biology
Product details
February 1999Hardback
9780521473422
276 pages
240 × 162 × 25 mm
0.527kg
5 b/w illus. 7 tables
Available
Table of Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Part I. Attitudes to Animals:
- 1. A look back in the mirror: perspectives on animals and ethics Francine L. Dolins
- 2. Me and my totem: cross-cultural attitudes towards animals Phyllis Passariello
- 3. Sheep in wolves' clothing? Attitudes to animals among farmers and scientists James A. Serpell
- Part II. Animal Awareness:
- 4. The problem of animal subjectivity and its consequences for the scientific measurement of animal suffering Françoise Wemelsfelder
- 5. Environmental enrichment and impoverishment: neurophysiological effects Susan D. Healy and Martin J. Tovée
- 6. The behavioural requirements of farm animals for psychological well-being and survival Robert J. Young
- 7. Personality and the happiness of the chimpanzee James E. King
- 8. Primate cognition: evidence for the ethical treatment of primates Richard W. Byrne
- Part III. Animal Welfare:
- 9. Animal welfare: the concept of the issues Donald M. Broom
- 10. New perspectives on the design and management of captive animal environments David Shepherdson
- 11. Should we let them go? Mary Ridgley
- Part IV. Research and Education:
- 12. Humane education: the role of animal-based learning Andrew J. Petto and Karla D. Russell
- 13. 'Minding animals': the role of animals in children's mental development M. Patricia Hindley
- 14. Alternatives to using animals in education David Dewhurst
- 15. Animals in scientific education and a reverence for life Henk Verhoog
- Part V. Epilogue: The Future of Animals:
- 16. Human sentiment and the future of wildlife David E. Cooper
- 17. In the absence of animals: power and impotence in our dealings with endangered animals Charles Bergman
- Index.
