Animal Rights A Very Short Introduction

Author : David DeGrazia
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780192853608
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction written by David DeGrazia and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-02-21 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By presenting models for understanding animals' moral status and rights, and examining their mental lives and welfare, the author explores the implications for how we should treat animals in connection with our diet, zoos, and research.

Author : Cass R. Sunstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198034735
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Rights written by Cass R. Sunstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cass Sunstein and Martha Nussbaum bring together an all-star cast of contributors to explore the legal and political issues that underlie the campaign for animal rights and the opposition to it. Addressing ethical questions about ownership, protection against unjustified suffering, and the ability of animals to make their own choices free from human control, the authors offer numerous different perspectives on animal rights and animal welfare. They show that whatever one's ultimate conclusions, the relationship between human beings and nonhuman animals is being fundamentally rethought. This book offers a state-of-the-art treatment of that rethinking.

Author : Tristram D. Wyatt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019102094X
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Behaviour: A Very Short Introduction written by Tristram D. Wyatt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How animals behave is crucial to their survival and reproduction. The application of new molecular tools such as DNA fingerprinting and genomics is causing a revolution in the study of animal behaviour, while developments in computing and image analysis allow us to investigate behaviour in ways never previously possible. By combining these with the traditional methods of observation and experiments, we are now learning more about animal behaviour than ever before. In this Very Short Introduction Tristram D. Wyatt discusses how animal behaviour has evolved, how behaviours develop in each individual (considering the interplay of genes, epigenetics, and experience), how we can understand animal societies, and how we can explain collective behaviour such as swirling flocks of starlings. Using lab and field studies from across the whole animal kingdom, he looks at mammals, butterflies, honeybees, fish, and birds, analysing what drives behaviour, and exploring instinct, learning, and culture. Looking more widely at behavioural ecology, he also considers some aspects of human behaviour. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : David DeGrazia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521567602
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking Animals Seriously written by David DeGrazia and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-07-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book distinguishes itself from much of the polemical literature on these issues by offering the most judicious and well-balanced account yet available of animals' moral standing, and related questions concerning their minds and welfare. Transcending jejune debates focused on utilitarianism versus rights, the book offers a fresh methodological approach with specific and constructive conclusions about our treatment of animals. David DeGrazia provides the most thorough discussion yet of whether equal consideration should be extended to animals' interests, and examines the issues of animal minds and animal well-being with an unparalleled combination of philosophical rigor and empirical documentation. His book is an important contribution to the field of animal ethics and will be read with special interest by all philosophers teaching such courses, as well as biologists, those professionally involved with animals, and general readers concerned about animal welfare.

Author : Peter Holland
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191620491
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Animal Kingdom: A Very Short Introduction written by Peter Holland and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-11-24 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The animal world is immensely diverse, and our understanding of it has been greatly enhanced by analysis of DNA and the study of evolution and development ('evo-devo'). In this Very Short Introduction Peter Holland presents a modern tour of the animal kingdom. Beginning with the definition of animals (not obvious in biological terms), he takes the reader through the high-level groupings of animals (phyla) and new views on their evolutionary relationships based on molecular data, together with an overview of the biology of each group of animals. The phylogenetic view is central to zoology today and the volume will be of great value to all students of the life sciences, as well as providing a concise summary for the interested general reader. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Sue Donaldson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199599661
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zoopolis written by Sue Donaldson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To all of these animals we owe respect for their basic inviolable rights.

Author : Andrew Clapham
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198706162
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights written by Andrew Clapham and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on highly topical issues such as torture, arbitrary detention, privacy, and discrimination, this book will help readers to understand for themselves the controversies and complexities behind human rights.

Author : Paul Waldau
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019973996X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Rights written by Paul Waldau and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of animal rights issues addresses a variety of topics surrounding research animals, companion animals, wild animals, work animals, and animals used for food, as well as discussing the animal rights movement and its key figures and organizations.

Author : Jeff Sebo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190861010
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves written by Jeff Sebo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2020, COVID-19, the Australia bushfires, and other global threats served as vivid reminders that human and nonhuman fates are increasingly linked. Human use of nonhuman animals contributes to pandemics, climate change, and other global threats which, in turn, contribute to biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse, and nonhuman suffering. Jeff Sebo argues that humans have a moral responsibility to include animals in global health and environmental policy. In particular, we should reduce our use of animals as part of our pandemic and climate change mitigation efforts and increase our support for animals as part of our adaptation efforts. Applying and extending frameworks such as One Health and the Green New Deal, Sebo calls for reducing support for factory farming, deforestation, and the wildlife trade; increasing support for humane, healthful, and sustainable alternatives; and considering human and nonhuman needs holistically. Sebo also considers connections with practical issues such as education, employment, social services, and infrastructure, as well as with theoretical issues such as well-being, moral status, political status, and population ethics. In all cases, he shows that these issues are both important and complex, and that we should neither underestimate our responsibilities because of our limitations, nor underestimate our limitations because of our responsibilities. Both an urgent call to action and a survey of what ethical and effective action requires, Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves is an invaluable resource for scholars, advocates, policy-makers, and anyone interested in what kind of world we should attempt to build and how.

Author : James Yeates
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198790961
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Veterinary Science written by James Yeates and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year around the world veterinarians treat billions of animals, from house cats to racehorses to pythons. In this Very Short Introduction, James Yeates covers the long history of veterinary science, showing how it has developed over the past five centuries as our understanding of animals' fundamental biology, pathology, and pharmacology has grown. Considering the key roles of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention in animal health, he discusses recent challenges such as the outbreak of BSE, and antibiotic resistance. Finally, Yeates considers the future of the field, and the difficulties vets face in balancing the interests of owners and animals when they don't coincide.