Broom, Donald M., author.
Wallingford, Oxfordshire : CABI, [2014]
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-167) and indexes.
• 1. The qualities that make up sentience — Why are we interested in sentience? — How do people view species perceived to be like us or unlike us? — The concept of sentience — Definitions and descriptions of components — 2. Ethics, morality, and attitudes — Ethics — Morality, selfishness and altruism — Obligations — Rights — Freedom — Brief history of attitudes to animals — 3. Animal welfare science : history and concepts — The history of animal welfare science — Before 1960 — The 1960s and 1970s — Post-1980 — The origins of the animal welfare concept — Welfare in relation to other concepts — Adaptation and welfare — Stress in relation to welfare — Needs and welfare — Health in relation welfare — Naturalness and welfare — Welfare and well-being — Quality of life in relation to welfare — Welfare and ‘a life worth living’ — Welfare in relation to sentience — 4. Brain complexity and cognitive ability — Brain function and brain size — Biology, brain function, brain structure and cognitive ability –Learning — Discrimination and recognition — Cognition — Range of cognitive abilities — Metacognition — Innovation — Cognitive bias — Variability among individuals and within populations — Capabilities for morality — The dangers of Occam’s Razor — 5. Feelings and emotions — Affect, feelings and emotions — Physiological systems of emotions and feelings — Mood — Cognition in relation to emotion — Pain — Fear — Anxiety — Various pleasures — Social affection — Guilt, anger and rage — Welfare in relation to feelings –
• 6. Awareness and consciousness — The meaning of awareness — Reporting perception and blind-sight — Consciousness — Assessing own actions and the actions of others — Concepts of the future — Concept of self — Awareness of others having concepts — Evolution of awareness — 7. Motivation and needs — Motivation — Needs — Freedoms — Welfare in relation to needs — Assessing what is important to animals — 8. Welfare assessment — Positive and negative welfare, short-term and long-term assessment — Behavioral, physiological and clinical indicators of poor welfare — Physiological measures — Behavioral measures — Disease, injury, movement and growth measures — Pain assessment — Indicators of good welfare including pleasure, happiness, good health — Reporting on happiness, or direct measurement? — Using information about preferences — Play and normal behaviour — Direct measures of good welfare — Integration of welfare measures — Risk and benefit analysis in animal welfare — Welfare reports and welfare outcome indicators for use in inspection — 9. Sentience during development, brain damage, and old age — Introduction : pre- and post-sentence — Sentience in embryos and fetuses — some developmental differences — Neural and pain system development — Awareness in the fetus — Sentience in young individuals — Sentience in brain-damaged and old individuals — Welfare during development, after brain damage and during old age — 10. Ethical decisions about humans and non-humans — Ethical decisions when sentience has been evaluated — Summary of which animals are sentient and when — Animal protection — Conclusions about sentience research and which animals to protect — Protection of the unborn child and other young — Protection of brain-damaged and senile persons and other animals — 11. Sustainability, welfare attitudes, and education — Sustainability — Changing ideas about product quality — Attitudes to animal welfare and consumer pressure — Welfare of wild animals, including pests — GM
• 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 in detail. Looking at sentience from a developmental perspective, it analyzes when in an individual’s growth sentience can be said to appear and uses evidence from a range of studies investigating embryos, fetuses and young animals to form an enlightening overview of the subject. With a full chapter covering ethical decisions such as animal protection and experimentation, this book is not only an invaluable resource for researchers and students of animal welfare and biology, but also an engaging and informative read for veterinarians and the general public. –Provided by publisher.

Subjects:

• Emotions in animals.
• Consciousness in animals.
• Animal welfare.
• Animal Behavior.
• Emotions.
• Animal Welfare.
• Consciousness.
• Perception.
• Sensation.

Requested by Capman, W.