Attitudes to Animals
Views in Animal Welfare

Investigates differing attitudes to animals in science and society.

Francine L. Dolins (Edited by)

9780521479066, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 13 February 1999

276 pages, 5 b/w illus. 7 tables
22.8 x 15.1 x 1.9 cm, 0.557 kg

'Students of biology, animal sciences, veterinary science and agriculture, all need to consider their attitudes to using animals. This book will be useful not only to these students, but also to their instructors.' Judith K. Blackshaw, Anthrozoös

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Animal behaviour [PSVP], Bio-ethics [PSAD], Animals & society [JFFZ]