Title: Animals and science : a guide to the debates /
Authors: Shanks, Niall, 1959-
Publisher: ABC-Clio,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Value of Life; Laboratory Animal Science; Animal Use Alternatives; Ethical Analysis; Animal Welfare; Animal experimentation Moral and ethical aspects; Animal welfare Moral and ethical aspects; Evolution (Biology) Moral and ethical aspects.; Animal experimentation; Animal models in research; Laboratory animals; Animal welfare; United Kingdom; United Kingdom.
Abstract: Examines the debates, from the Renaissance to the present, surrounding issues of animal rights, consciousness, and self-awareness.
Contents: 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.