Why Animals Matter: Animal Consciousness, Animal Welfare, and Human Well-Being

by Marian Stamp Dawkins

Book Overview

Renowned authority Marian Stamp Dawkins' new work presents an illuminating and urgent argument for the need to rethink animal welfare. In the vein of Temple Grandin's work, Dawkins explains that this welfare must be made to work in practice to have any effect, and cannot be tinged by anthropomorphism and claims of animal consciousness, which lack firm empirical evidence and are often freighted with controversy and high emotions. Instead, animal-welfare...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199747512
• ISBN13: 9780199747511
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.6"