Animal and human health and welfare
Subtitle: a comparative philosophical analysis
By: Lennart Nordenfelt.
Publisher: CABE pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Wallingford, OX, UK; Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781845930592
Subjects: Health -- Philosophy; Medicine -- Philosophy; Veterinary medicine -- Philosophy; Philosophy, Medical; Health; Quality of Life; Animal Welfare; Animal Husbandry
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An overview of historical conceptions of human health; title: A starting-point : two modern streams of philosophy of human health and disease; title: The place of evolutionary theory in the philosophy of health and welfare; title: Two classic theories of human welfare; title: A background to the analysis of welfare or quality of life in the human sciences; title: Some contemporary theories of human welfare or quality of life; title: Ideas on animal health; title: Some examples of ideas on animal welfare; title: Biological theories of animal welfare; title: Theories of welfare, ethics and values; title: Theories of welfare in terms of subjective well-being; title: On animal minds : a digression; title: On quality of life in animals; title: The idea of welfare as fulfilment of preferences; title: Theories of welfare in terms of needs; title: Theories of welfare in terms of natural behaviour; title: On complex views of animal welfare; title: On conflicts between individual and systemic welfare; title: Welfare and time; title: Summing up the analysis; title: A holistic approach to animal health and welfare; title: Towards a holistic theory of health in animal science; title: Towards a happiness theory of welfare in the animal context.