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Animals and science : a guide to the debates / Niall Shanks.
Veterinary: Atwood Library (Campus) HV4915 .S43 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shanks, Niall, 1959-
- Series:
- Controversies in science
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animal experimentation--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Animal experimentation.
- Animal welfare--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Animal welfare.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, CA ; Oxford, England : ABC-Clio, 2002.
- Summary:
- A thought-provoking series that chronicles the discussions, disputes, and debates that have divided scientists and advanced science through the ages.
- The origins of humanity? The causes of homosexuality? Experimentation on humans and animals? In both theory and practice, science is riven by controversy. Always has been, always will be. Controversies in Science reveals the history of humanity's disputatious pursuit of truth-the passions, the polemics, and the partisanship.
- ABC-CLIO's Controversies in Science series examines some of the greatest debates in the history of science's quest for truth. Edited by top scientists, philosophers, and historians, the titles explore fields as diverse as cosmology, genetics, evolution, psychiatry, and the fascinating and speculative study of extraterrestrial biology. Who are we? Where do we come from? And what limits should we place on the pursuit of answers to these questions?
- The truth is out there. But what routes have we taken? What routes should we take? Controversies in Science offers a road map.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Man and Beast in Nature xi
- 1 The Essence of the Problem: Medieval Legacies 1
- 2 Gut Feelings: Anatomy and Physiology in the Renaissance 23
- 3 Minds, Machines, and Bodies: Intelligent Design in Nature? 43
- 4 Of Mice and Monkeys: The Moral Relevance of Animal Pain 73
- 5 The Job of Physiology: Animals in Nineteenth-Century Medicine 95
- 6 By Accident or Design: Darwin's Theory of Evolution 117
- 7 Darwinism Developed: The Ontogeny of an Idea 143
- 8 The Mouse as Man Writ Small: Animals in Modern Medicine 171
- 9 Mice, Mazes, and Minds: Explaining Animal Behavior 193
- 10 The Evolution of Consciousness: A Question of Animal Pain 221
- 11 Animals through the Looking Glass: Language and Self-Consciousness 257
- 12 Conclusion: The Questions that Remain 285.
- ISBN:
- 1576072460
- OCLC:
- 49874327
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