The Welfare of Animals - The Silent Majority (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Animal Welfare, 8
Release date:	November 2008
First published:	2009
Authors:	Clive Phillips
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	220
Edition:	2009 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4020-9218-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Animals & society > General
LSN:	1-4020-9218-0
Barcode:	9781402092183

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