Sentience and animal welfare / / Donald M. Broom

• Autore: Broom Donald M.
• Pubblicazione: Wallingford, England ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : CABI, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (199 p.)
• Disciplina: 591.5
• Soggetto topico: Emotions in animals; Consciousness in animals; Animal welfare
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Table of Contents; Preface; Glossary; A; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; W; 1 The Qualities That Make Up Sentience; 1.1 Why Are We Interested in Sentience?; 1.2 How Do People View Species Perceived to be Like Us or Unlike Us?; 1.3 The Concept of Sentience; 1.4 Definitions and Descriptions of Components of Sentience; 2 Ethics, Morality and Attitudes; 2.1 Ethics; 2.2 Morality, Selfishness and Altruism; 2.3 Obligations; 2.4 Rights; 2.5 Freedom; 2.6 Brief History of Attitudes to Animals; 3 Animal Welfare Science: History and Concepts; 3.1 The History of Animal Welfare Science ; 3.1.1 Before 19603.1.2 The 1960s and 1970s; 3.1.3 Post-1980; 3.2 The Origins of the Animal Welfare Concept; 3.3 Welfare in Relation to Other Concepts; 3.3.1 Adaptation and welfare; 3.3.2 Stress in relation to welfare; 3.3.3 Needs and welfare; 3.3.4 Health in relation to welfare; 3.3.5 Naturalness and welfare; 3.3.6 Welfare and well-being; 3.3.7 Quality of life in relation to welfare; 3.3.8 Welfare and 'a life worth living'; 3.4 Welfare in Relation to Sentience; 4 Brain Complexity and Cognitive Ability; 4.1 Brain Function and Brain Size ; 4.2 Biology, Brain Function, Brain Structure and Cognitive Ability4.3 Learning; 4.4 Discrimination and Recognition; 4.5 Cognition; 4.6 Range of Cognitive Abilities; 4.7 Metacognition; 4.8 Innovation; 4.9 Cognitive Bias; 4.10 Variability Among Individuals and Within Populations; 4.11 Capabilities for Morality; 4.12 The Dangers of Occam's Razor; 5 Feelings and Emotions; 5.1 Affect, Feelings and Emotions; 5.2 Physiological Systems of Emotions and Feelings; 5.3 Mood; 5.4 Cognition in Relation to Emotion; 5.5 Pain; 5.6 Fear; 5.7 Anxiety; 5.8 Various Pleasures; 5.9 Social Affection ; 5.10 Guilt, Anger and Rage5.11 Welfare in Relation to Feelings; 6 Awareness and Consciousness; 6.1 The Meaning of Awareness; 6.2 Reporting Perception and Blind-sight; 6.3 Consciousness; 6.4 Assessing Own Actions and the Actions of Others; 6.5 Concepts of the Future; 6.6 Concept of Self; 6.7 Awareness of Others Having Concepts; 6.8 Evolution of Awareness; 7 Motivation and Needs; 7.1 Motivation; 7.2 Needs; 7.3 Freedoms; 7.4 Welfare in Relation to Needs; 7.5 Assessing What is Important to Animals; 8 Welfare Assessment; 8.1 Positive and Negative Welfare, Short-term and Long-term Assessment ; 8.2 Behavioural, Physiological and Clinical Indicators of Poor Welfare8.2.1 Physiological measures; 8.2.2 Behavioural measures; 8.2.3 Disease, injury, movement and growth measures; 8.3 Pain Assessment; 8.4 Indicators of Good Welfare Including Pleasure, Happiness, Good Health; 8.4.1 Reporting on happiness, or direct measurement?; 8.4.2 Using information about preferences; 8.4.3 Play and normal behaviour; 8.4.4 Direct measures of good welfare; 8.5 Integration of Welfare Measures; 8.6 Risk and Benefit Analysis in Animal Welfare ; 8.7 Welfare Reports and Welfare Outcome Indicators for Use in Inspection
• Sommario/riassunto: Sentience - the ability to feel, perceive and experience - is central to the animal welfare debate as it raises the question of whether animals experience suffering in life and death. This book explores and answers these questions in an objective way, based on the latest research and empirical evidence. Beginning with an introduction to sentience, the book investigates why we are so interested in sentience, when, as a species, humans became sentient and how it has changed over time. The book defines aspects of sentience such as consciousness, memory and emotions, and discusses brain complexity
• Titolo autorizzato: Sentience and animal welfare
• ISBN: 1-78064-405-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910626108003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II