Sentience and animal welfare /
Sentience - the ability to feel, perceive and experience - is central to the animal welfare debate as it raises the question of whether animals experience suffering in life and death. This book explores and answers these questions in an objective way, based on the latest research and empirical evide...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Wallingford, Oxfordshire :
CABI,
[2014]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book. |
| Summary: | Sentience - the ability to feel, perceive and experience - is central to the animal welfare debate as it raises the question of whether animals experience suffering in life and death. This book explores and answers these questions in an objective way, based on the latest research and empirical evidence. Beginning with an introduction to sentience, the book investigates why we are so interested in sentience, when, as a species, humans became sentient and how it has changed over time. The book defines aspects of sentience such as consciousness, memory and emotions, and discusses brain complexity. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on opening page (viewed Dec 02, 2014). Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 185 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-167) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781780644059 1780644051 |
| DOI: | 10.1079/9781780644035.0000 |
| Access: | This title is restricted to authorized TAMU and TAMHSC users. |