The Welfare of Performing Animals : A Historical Perspective / by David A. H. Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, David A. H., author.

Contributor:

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Biomedical and Life Sciences (Springer-11642)

Animal welfare (Springer) 1572-7408 ; 15.

Animal Welfare, 1572-7408 ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zoology.

Fishes.

Ethics.

Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management.

Local Subjects:

Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XVI, 278 pages) : 41 illustrations, 8 illustrations in color.

Edition:

First edition 2015.

Contained In:

Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

This timely book describes and analyses a neglected area of the history of concern for animal welfare, discussing the ends and means of the capture, transport, housing and training of performing animals, as well as the role of pressure groups, politics, the press and vested interests. It examines primary source material of considerable interdisciplinary interest, and addresses the influence of scientific and veterinary opinion and the effectiveness of proposals for supervisory legislation, noting the current international status and characteristics of present-day practice within the commercial sector. Animal performance has a long history, and at the beginning of the twentieth century this aspect of popular entertainment became the subject not just of a major public controversy but also of prolonged British parliamentary attention to animal welfare. Following an assessment of the use of trained animals in the more distant historical past, the book charts the emergence of criticism and analyses the arguments and evidence used by the opponents and proponents in Britain from the early twentieth century to the present, noting comparable events in the United States and elsewhere.

Contents:

Introduction

The Legacy of Animal Performance

Open Debate in the British Parliament and Beyond

Means and Ends

Unfinished Business

Agitation After the Act

Conclusion.

Other Format:

Printed edition:

ISBN:

978-3-662-45834-1

9783662458341

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.