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Zoology
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ISBN: 0030305047 9780030305047 Year: 1991 Publisher: Philadelphia Saunders

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Modern zoology is a dynamic branch of science. The proper study of animals draws from every subdiscipline in biology ᆳ from the study of genes and DNA sequences to the analysis of complex ecosystems and of the biosphere. If we are to understand animal structure and function, behavior and social organization, diversity and community complexity, we cannot be content with simply describing living animals. We need to understand the biological past, the evolutionary history of the living world.

The animals issue : moral theory in practice.
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ISBN: 0521436893 0521430925 0511597967 9780521436892 Year: 1994 Publisher: Cambridge University press

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Do animals have moral rights? In contrast to the philosophical gurus of the animal rights movement, whose opinion has held moral sway in recent years, Peter Carruthers here claims that they do not. He explores a variety of moral theories, arguing that animals lack direct moral significance. This provocative but judiciously argued book will appeal to all those interested in animal rights, whatever their initial standpoint. It will also serve as a lively introduction to ethics, demonstrating why theoretical issues in ethics actually matter.


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Animal welfare : competing conceptions and their ethical implications.
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ISBN: 1402086180 9781402086182 9781402086199 9048187877 9786611708771 1281708771 1402086199 Year: 2008 Publisher: [Dordrecht] Springer

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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 liberationists. This strategy has been used to argue for merely limited reform in the use of animals. This strategy was initially employed as a way of sympathetically  responding to the abolitionist claims of anti-vivisectionists, who objected to the use of animals in research. It was subsequently used by farm animal scientists. The primarily reformist (as opposed to abolitionist) goals of this community make the false assumption that there are conditions under which animals may be raised and slaughtered for food or used as models in scientific research that are ethically acceptable. The tendency of the animal welfare science community is to accept this assumption as their framework of inquiry, and thus to discount certain practices as harmful to the interests of the animals that they affect. For example, animal welfare is conceptualized is such a way that death does not count as harmful to the interests of animal, nor prolonged life a benefit.


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Dier en welzijn
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ISBN: 9020963236 9789020963236 Year: 2005 Publisher: Tielt LannooCampus

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