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The Biology and Management of Animal Welfare (Paperback)
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The Biology and Management of Animal Welfare (Paperback)
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This book provides a concise and up to date review of current
knowledge on the biological processes affecting animal welfare, and
the implications emerging from our improved understanding of those
biological principles in terms of options available to assess and
manage the welfare status of individuals and populations.
Biological principles are embedded within wider consideration of
the ethical basis for our concern about animals and their welfare,
in recognition of the fact that concern and responsibility for
welfare is strongly affected by cultural and ethical norms. The
Biology and Management of Animal Welfare covers several topics not
addressed in other texts. Thus it pays attention to the difference
between animal welfare and animal rights and distinguishes between
welfare and evolutionary fitness (which often causes confusion).
The thorny problem of necessary versus unnecessary suffering is
considered; most legislation provides for the prevention of
unnecessary suffering but never defines it. In addition a box
feature explores how human psychological development can affect
attitudes to animals and how psychological dysfunctions (in terms
of attitudes to other humans) can often be detected in advance from
attitudes to animals. The book also includes consideration of
alternatives to animal experimentation with a chapter devoted to
the 3 Rs (Refine, Reduce, Replace). Written by authors who work in
the field and all regularly contribute to postgraduate courses in
animal welfare, in veterinary faculties and elsewhere, the text is
deliberately kept short and concise to emphasise the essential
principles, but is comprehensively referenced throughout in order
to guide the reader in their own wider background reading around
the framework provided by this overview. The book includes a number
of dedicated box features that offer more detailed illustration or
worked examples for some of the topics addressed in the text, or to
focus attention on additional special topics.
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