The Welfare of Animals is an exciting book that will stimulate and provoke its readers. It describes many problems faced by animals - those we use for food, for pleasure or in research, and those simply but harshly affected by shrinking habitats in the face of the ever-growing human population. And yet it is not a depressing read. It focuses not only on the difficulties that animals face, but on their capacity for free-choice, for joy and excitement, and on the possible ways in which the planet can be shared between species if only we take the time and trouble to think more carefully about the impact of our actions. Clive Phillips moved from the United Kingdom to take up a Foundation Chair in Animal Welfare at the University of Queensland, becoming Australia's first Professor of Animal Welfare in 2003. This cultural leap, combined with his travels in countries like Malaysia and Borneo, permits him the unique and broad perspective that forms the backbone of this book. Eschewing the normal territory patrolled by the animal scientist (explaining the physiological basis of the stress response or causation of abnormal behaviour), Clive ventures into jungles and deserts, city centres and tribal homelands, and presents a book that remarkably and successfully combines travel-diary, nature notes, social and cultural history.
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"The book places human attitudes toward animal welfare into cultural and religious perspective, and gives additional consideration to the influence of education, gender, and genetics. . The author addresses ethical standards of animal care and animal use in relation to government legislation, beliefs of animal rights activists, public opinion, biomedical research and teaching . . This thought-provoking book will be of interest to ethicists, animal scientists, veterinarians, animal caretakers, and anyone concerned with animal welfare. Summing Up: Recommended. All collections." (D. A. Brass, Choice, Vol. 46 (8), April, 2009)
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Edition
1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2009
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Place of publication
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional/practitioner
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Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
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ISBN-13
978-90-481-8093-6 (9789048180936)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4020-9219-0
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Clive Phillips was Australia’s first Professor of Animal Welfare, at the University of Queensland, and foundation director of the Centre for Animal Welfare and Ethics. His PhD from Glasgow University focused on dairy cow nutrition and behaviour. He was previously a lecturer at the Universities of Cambridge and Wales. He has authored over 400 scientific journal articles on the welfare of farm, zoo and companion animals, animal nutrition, transport and production. His books include Principles of Cattle Production, The Animal Trade, Cattle Behaviour and Welfare and The Welfare of Animals - the Silent Majority. He recently edited the Encyclopaedia of Animal Nutrition and co-edited the Routledge Handbook in Animal Welfare. Clive chaired the Queensland and Western Australian Governments’ Animal Welfare Boards, and is currently editor-in-chief of the journal Animals, Springer’s Animal Welfare book series and Animal Behaviour and Welfare Cases. In his interview series ‘Conversations with Clive’ he exchanges ideas with other senior animal welfare scientists and academic experts.
Definitions and Concepts of Animal Welfare.- Mankind's Relationship to Animals in Nature.- Empathy Towards Animals.- Animal Welfare and Animal Rights.- Welfare Assessment.- Managing Animal Welfare and Rights.- Teaching Animal Welfare.- Animal Welfare Science.- The Scale and Intensity of the World's Animal Industries.- Animals in Research.- Future Developments in Animal Welfare.
