Attitudes to Animals: Views in Animal Welfare

by Edited by Francine L. Dolins

• ISBN13: 9780521473422
• ISBN10: 052147342X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This thought-provoking book will ask what it is to be human, what to be animal, and what are the natures of the relationships between them. This is accomplished with philosophical and ethical discussions, scientific evidence and dynamic theoretical approaches. Attitudes to Animals will also encourage us to think not only of our relationships to non-human animals, but also of those to other, human, animals. This book 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, nature and development of the human-animal relationship. Human perspectives on the human-animal relationships reflect what we have learned, together with spoken and unspoken attitudes and assumptions, from our families, societies, media, education and employment.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii	(2)
Acknowledgements	ix
Part I Attitudes to animals	3	(34)
1 A look back in the mirror: perspectives on animals and ethics	3	(9)
Francine L. Dolins
2 Me and my totem: cross-cultural attitudes towards animals	12	(14)
Phyllis Passariello
3 Sheep in wolves' clothing? Attitudes to animals among farmers and scientists	26	(11)
James A. Serpell
Part II Animal awareness	37	(92)
4 The problem of animal subjectivity and its consequences for the scientific measurement of animal suffering	37	(17)
Francoise Wemelsfelder
5 Environmental enrichment and impoverishment: neurophysiological effects	54	(23)
Susan D. Healy
Martin J. Tovee
6 The behavioural requirements of farm animals for psychological well-being and survival	77	(24)
Robert J. Young
7 Personality and the happiness of the chimpanzee	101	(13)
James E. King
8 Primate cognition: evidence for the ethical treatment of primates	114	(15)
Richard W. Byrne
Part III Animal welfare	129	(38)
9 Animal welfare: the concept of the issues	129	(14)
Donald M. Broom
10 New perspectives on the design and management of captive animal environments	143	(9)
David Shepherdson
11 Should we let them go?	152	(15)
Mary Midgley
Part IV Research and education	167	(64)
12 Humane education: the role of animal-based learning	167	(19)
Andrew J. Petto
Karla D. Russell
13 `Minding animals': the role of animals in children's mental development	186	(14)
M. Patricia Hindley
14 Alternatives to using animals in education	200	(18)
David Dewhurst
15 Animals in scientific education and a reverence for life	218	(13)
Henk Verhoog
Part V Epilogue: the future of wild animals	231	(27)
16 Human sentiment and the future of wildlife	231	(13)
David E. Cooper
17 In the absence of animals: power and impotence in our dealings with endangered animals	244	(14)
Charles Bergman
Index	258