Sentience and Animal Welfare
by Donald M Broom
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Broom (veterinary medicine, Univ. of Cambridge, UK) takes readers on a short, clear, authoritative journey through animal sentience and what it means in terms of how humans value and treat animals. He quickly outlines what sentience and ethics are, followed by a little history of people's views of animals. He discusses the four bases for animal sentience-cognition, affect, awareness (which he equates to consciousness), and motivation. He draws on wide, up-to-date coverage of research on these areas across the phyla, including cephalopods, fish, and crustaceans (23 pages of references after 141 pages of text). Having set a foundation, Broom then discusses how these apply to animal welfare, in many cases using domesticated animals as examples and evaluating how physiological and behavioral measures can be used to study areas such as pain and wellness, including evaluating what is important to an animal. There is an interesting assessment of sentience across the life-span and when human and nonhuman animals should be protected. Broom ends up by pointing out that public attitudes, as exemplified in the Canadian seal hunt and genetically modified animals, can change practice and feels that public education is the ultimate answer to good animal welfare. --J. A. Mather, University of Lethbridge Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries.
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- Publisher CAB International
- Publication Date August 2014
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781780644035 / 1780644035
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 75 GBP
- Pages200
- ReadershipProfessional and Scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2014
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