Overview
- Considers animal welfare from a broad, and especially humanitarian, perspective
- Provides a framework for deciding on the humaneness of our treatment of animals
- An international approach to animal welfare, drawing on the author’s experiences
- Incorporates the author’s unique experiences with a wide range of animals
- A personal journey of exploration of our interactions with animals
Part of the book series: Animal Welfare (AWNS, volume 8)
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Reviews
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"The book places human attitudes toward animal welfare into cultural and religious perspective, and gives additional consideration to the influence of education, gender, and genetics. … The author addresses ethical standards of animal care and animal use in relation to government legislation, beliefs of animal rights activists, public opinion, biomedical research and teaching … . This thought-provoking book will be of interest to ethicists, animal scientists, veterinarians, animal caretakers, and anyone concerned with animal welfare. Summing Up: Recommended. All collections." (D. A. Brass, Choice, Vol. 46 (8), April, 2009)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Welfare of Animals
Book Subtitle: The Silent Majority
Authors: Clive Phillips
Series Title: Animal Welfare
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9219-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9218-3Published: 18 November 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8093-6Published: 22 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9219-0Published: 07 November 2008
Series ISSN: 1572-7408
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 220
Topics: Zoology, Animal Genetics and Genomics, Animal Physiology, Behavioral Sciences, Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science