Animals and Science

A Guide to the Debates

By:

Niall Shanks

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Hardback

Series:

Controversies in Science

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Are humans and animals the result of supernatural creation, or are they the product of evolutionary processes? Are animals conscious - able to feel pain and emotion and self-aware? Are they then beings worthy of moral respect? Do they have rights? Do we have obligations and duties towards them? This volume examines these questions in the light of the evolution of modern science, from the Renaissance to the beginning of the 21st century. It covers Medieval legacies: an examination of the "scale of nature", based on the theological view of a universe created and designed by God, with humans as the top and other species below. It looks at medicine and the beast machine: how comparative anatomy and vivisection in the 16th and 17th centuries showed scientists structural similarities between humans and animals. It also examines animal pain and human morals: as scientists realize animals and humans experience pain the same way, the first organized animal welfare groups emerge.

Author Biography:

Niall Shanks is professor of philosophy and adjunct professor of biological sciences at East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN.

Release date NZ

June 21st, 2002

Author

Niall Shanks

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Edition

annotated edition

Illustrations

42 Illustrations, unspecified

Interest Age

From 12 years

Pages

380

Series

Controversies in Science

Dimensions

178x254x23

ISBN-13

9781576072462

Product ID

5805148

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