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Animal welfare : competing conceptions and their ethical implications /

(Publisher-supplied data) Members of the animal welfare science community, which includes both scientists and philosophers, have illegitimately appropriated the concept of animal welfare by claiming to have given a scientific account of it that is more objectively valid than the more sentimental acc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Haynes, Richard P.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [New York] : Springer, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The roots of the emerging science of animal welfare in Great Britain
  • The historical roots of the science of laboratory animal welfare in the US
  • Laboratory animal welfare issues in the US legislative and regulatory history
  • Mandated institutional animal care and use committees
  • Do regulators of animal welfare need to develop a theory of psychological well-being?
  • Rollin's theory of animal welfare and its ethical implications
  • Duncan and the inclusion of subjectivity
  • Fraser on animal welfare, science, and ethics
  • Appleby-Sandøe and the human welfare model
  • Nordenfelt and Nussbaum on animal welfare
  • The fair deal argument
  • A general theory of our moral obligations to nonhuman animals
  • Conclusion: Competing conceptions of animal welfare.