The Unheeded Cry: Animal Consciousness, Animal Pain and Science - Couverture rigide

Rollin, Bernard E.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0192177656 ISBN 13 : 9780192177650

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1989

Synopsis

The author traces the development of changing attitudes towards animals and shows how growing social concern about the treatment of animals is forcing science to turn back to a common-sense view. He explains why and how scientists have been so cavalier about animal use, animal pain and the moral questions they raise. He explores the damage caused by this position, both morally and scientifically. Bernard Rollin has lectured on animal rights, animal pain, the ethics of animal research, genetic engineering and related issues to medical researchers, veterinary surgeons, psychologists, lawyers, government agencies and agricultural groups in the United States, Canada, Britain and Australia. His "Animal Rights and Human Morality" was made Academic Book of the Year by the American Association of University Libraries.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

How is it that scientists, so fond of dogs at home, may become so seemingly insensitive to animal suffering as soon as they don their lab coats? How can science teach us that animals feel no pain when our common sense observations tell us otherwise? Rollin offers welcome insight into questions like these in The Unheeded Cry, a rare, reasonable account of the difficult and controversial issues surrounding the use of animals. Widely hailed by animal activists and scientists alike on its first appearance, the book is updated here to include recent changes in thinking and practice in this fast-growing field. This work will help professionals and amateurs with an interest in the moral status of animals in their attempts to penetrate the fortress of scientific ideology and practice, and to effect change. Lively and lucid, The Unheeded Cry asks whether experimental animals feel pain and, if so, what should humans as responsible moral agents do about it?

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0192177656
• ISBN 13: 9780192177650
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 326
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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