Understanding animal welfare
Subtitle: science in its cultural context
By: David Fraser.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ames, Iowa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405136952
Subjects: Animal welfare.; Animal experimentation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Animal welfare in context; title: Introduction; title: Animals and moral concern; title: Animals in the human mind; title: A good life for animals; title: A science of animal welfare?; title: Studying animal welfare; title: Disease, injury and production; title: "Stress"; title: Abnormal behaviour; title: Affective states; title: "Natural" living; title: Preferences and motivation; title: Drawing conclusions about animal welfare; title: How do the different measures relate to each other?; title: Selecting and combining criteria of animal welfare; title: Animal welfare, values and mandated science; title: Coda; title: References; title: Index.