Why Animals Matter: Animal Consciousness, Animal Welfare, and Human Well-Being

Contributor(s): Dawkins, Marian Stamp (Author)

ISBN: 9780199747511

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Hardcover

$59.00

Pub Date: June 1, 2012

Dewey: 179.3

LCCN: 2011051870

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.00" H x 8.60" L x 5.60" W ( 0.85 lbs) 224 pages

BISAC Categories:

Science | Philosophy and Social Aspects | Nature | Animal Rights

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: A distinguished Oxford animal behaviorist lays out her new theory of animal welfare, based on the idea of animals being healthy and having what they want

Review Quotes: "[H]er deep knowlege of animal behavior research ... make for very interesting reading."
--Environmental Ethics

"(An) important work ... She butts heads with the 'warm and fuzzy' school of animal welfare in this concise and well-researched call for a new way of making the concern for animal welfare a part of the human decision-making process." - Booklist

Featured in the Quarterly Review of Biology.

"Why Animals Matter is a scholarly and accessible account of the complicated link between human interests and animal welfare." --Metapsychology Online Reviews

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