Animal Welfare Series Preface
Preface to second edition
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 One welfare, one health, one stress, humans and other animals
Abstract
1.1. The terms animal, welfare, health and stress
1.2. Animal welfare and social change
1.3. The debate about animal usage
1.4 Genetics, epigenetics and what the environment can change
1.5 The challenge ahead
References
Chapter 2 Adaptation, regulation, sentience and brain control
Abstract
2.1 Adaptation
2.2 Homeostatic control
2.3 Sentience and the role of the brain in coping
2.4. Habituation and sensitisation
2.5 Motivational state
2.6 Outputs from decision centres
2.7 Control systems and needs
2.8 Types of control
2.9 Pain
2.10 Other feelings and emotions: positive and negative
2.11Development of regulatory systems
References
Chapter 3 Limits to adaptation
3.1 Limitations of timing and temporal aspects of stimulus modality
3.2 Limitations of intensity as an adaptation basis for adaptation
3.3 Variation in adaptation has consequences for responses to stimulation
3.4 Integrating time, intensity and mode of stimulation
3.5 The concepts of tolerance and coping
3.6 Variations in patterns of adaptation
3.7 Other factors affecting adaptation
3.8 Effects of human selection of animals on their ability to adapt
References
Chapter 4 Stress and welfare: history and usage of concepts
Abstract
4.1 Stress
4.2 Welfare
4.3 Welfare assessment
4.4 Welfare in relation to stress
4.5 Naturalness and welfare
4.6 Welfare in relation to well-being
4.7 Welfare in relation to quality of life
4.8 Welfare and "a life worth living"
4.9 Welfare in relation to sentience
4.10 Welfare in relation to health
4.11 Linguistic problems with health and well-being
References
Chapter 5 Assessing welfare: short-term responses
Abstract
5.1 Behavioural measures of welfare
5.2 Physiological measures of welfare
5.3 Using indicators to evaluate welfare
5.4 Short-term welfare problems and concepts of stress
References
Chapter 6 Assessing welfare: long-term responses
Abstract
6.1 Direct measures of good welfare
6.2 Cognitive bias and other indirect measures of good welfare
6.3 Qualitative behavioural assessment
6.4 Reduced reproductive success
6.5 Reduced life expectancy
6.6 Weight, growth and body condition
6.7 Cardiovascular and blood parameters
6.8 Adrenal axes
6.9 Measures of immune system function
6.10 Bone strength, muscle strength and injury
6.11 Disease incidence measures
6.12 Brain measures
6.13 Behavioural measures
6.14 Other consequences of frustration and lack of control
6.15 Lack of stimulation and overstimulation
6.16 Interrelationships among measures and welfare outcome measures
References
Chapter 7 Preference studies and welfare
Abstract
7.1 Time and energy allocation in a rich environment
7.2 Experimental studies of animal preferences
7.3 Environmental enrichment
7.4 Do preference studies tell us what is important for animals?
References
Chapter 8 Ethics: considering world issues
Abstract
8.1 World problems
8.2 Value systems
8.3 Anti-microbial resistance
8.4 Climate change
8.5 Sustainability
8.6 How humans impose on other animals - and vice versa
8.7 Setting ethical limits to assessed welfare
8.8 Food production systems for the future
8.9 Stress and welfare in the general ethical framework
References
Chapter 9 Stress and welfare in the world
Abstract
9.1 Studying stress and welfare
9.2 Using the term stress scientifically
9.3 Welfare in the moral world
Glossary
Subject and Author Index
