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Darwinian dominion : animal welfare and human interests /

The controversial subject of this book is the permissible use of animals by humans. Lewis Petrinovich argues that humans have a set of cognitive abilities, developing from a suite of emotional attachments, that make them unique among species. Although other animals can think, suffer, and have needs,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Petrinovich, Lewis F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Evolutionary issues
  • 2. Primate societies
  • 3. Philosophical background
  • 4. Research methods and the aims of science
  • 5. Development of sensing and acting
  • 6. Cognition and mind : humans and nonhumans
  • 7. Animal rights
  • 8. Animal liberation and speciesism
  • 9. Morality and animal research
  • 10. Research is ...
  • 11. Setting research and educational policy
  • 12. Eating the other : human and nonhuman
  • 13. Species preservation, zoos, and pets
  • 14. Epilogue.