Animal Welfare Competing Conceptions and Their Ethical Implications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Haynes, Richard P. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Ethics.; Philosophy of mind.; Philosophy and science.; Philosophy.; Political philosophy.; Sociology.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Philosophy of Science.; Philosophy of Technology.; Political Philosophy.; Philosophy of Mind.

Members of the “animal welfare science community”, which includes both scientists and philosophers, have illegitimately appropriated the concept of animal welfare by claiming to have given a scientific account of it that is more objectively valid than the more “sentimental” account given by animal l...

Table of Contents:

• The Science of Laboratory Animal Care and Welfare
• The Roots for the Emerging Science of Animal Welfare in Great Britain
• The Historical Roots of the Science of Laboratory Animal Welfare in the US
• Laboratory Animal Welfare Issues in the US Legislative and Regulatory History
• Mandated Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees
• Do Regulators of Animal Welfare Need to Develop a Theory of Psychological Well-Being?
• Conclusion
• The Emergence of the Science of Food Animal Welfare Mandated by the Brambell Commission Report
• Rollin’s Theory of Animal Welfare and Its Ethical Implications
• Duncan and the Inclusion of Subjectivity
• Fraser on Animal Welfare, Science, and Ethics
• Appleby-Sandøe and the Human Welfare Model
• Nordenfelt and Nussbaum on Animal Welfare
• Conclusion to Part II
• Giving Animals What We Owe Them
• to Part III
• The Fair Deal Argument
• A General Theory of Our Moral Obligations to Nonhuman Animals
• Conclusion: Competing Conceptions of Animal Welfare.