Animals and science [electronic resource] : a guide to the debates /
Shanks, Niall,1959-
Credo Reference (Firm)
Santa Barbara, CA : ABC-CLIO,
c2002.
Examines the debates, from the Renaissance to the present, surrounding issues of animal rights, consciousness, and self-awareness.
Includes graphical cross-reference mapper.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-367) and index.
Introduction: Man and beast in nature -- The essence of the problem: medieval legacies -- Gut feelings: anatomy and physiology in the Renaissance -- Minds, machines, and bodies: intelligent design in nature? -- Of mice and monkeys: the moral relevance of animal pain -- The job of physiology: animals in Nineteenth-Century medicine -- By accident or design: Darwin's theory of evolution -- Darwinism developed: the ontogeny of an idea -- The mouse as man writ small: animals in modern medicine -- Mice, mazes, and minds: explaining animal behavior -- The evolution of consciousness: a question of animal pain -- Animals through the looking glass: language and self-consciousness -- Documents.
Text (online database).
Examines the debates, from the Renaissance to the present, surrounding issues of animal rights, consciousness, and self-awareness.
Electronic reproduction.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Animal experimentation.
Animal models in research.
Animal welfare.
Laboratory animals.
Animals and science.
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