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Animal and human health and welfare : a comparative philosophical analysis
- Title
- Animal and human health and welfare : a comparative philosophical analysis / Lennart Nordenfelt.
- Author
- Nordenfelt, Lennart, 1945-
- Publication
- Wallingford, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub., c2006.
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- xii, 190 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-186) and index.
- Contents
- An overview of historical conceptions of human health -- A starting-point : two modern streams of philosophy of human health and disease -- The place of evolutionary theory in the philosophy of health and welfare -- Two classic theories of human welfare or happiness -- A background to the analysis of welfare or quality of life in the human sciences -- Some contemporary theories of human welfare or quality of life -- Ideas on animal health -- Some examples of ideas on animal welfare -- Biological theories of animal welfare -- Theories of welfare, ethics and values -- Theories of welfare in terms of subjective well-being -- On animal minds : a digression -- On quality of life in animals --
- The idea of welfare as fulfilment of preferences -- Theories of welfare in terms of needs -- Theories of welfare in terms of natural behaviour -- On complex views of animal welfare -- On conflicts between individual and systemic welfare -- Welfare and time -- Summing up the analysis -- Towards a holistic theory of health in animal science -- Towards a happiness theory of welfare in the animal context.
- Call Number
- JFF 07-532
- ISBN
- 1845930592 (alk. paper)
- 9781845930592 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005021603
- OCLC
- 61453840
- Author
- Nordenfelt, Lennart, 1945-
- Title
- Animal and human health and welfare : a comparative philosophical analysis / Lennart Nordenfelt.
- Imprint
- Wallingford, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub., c2006.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-186) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFF 07-532