TY - BOOK ID - 51303152 TI - Darwinian dominion : animal welfare and human interests. PY - 2012 SN - 0262161788 0262661217 9786612099670 0262281511 1282099671 0585003114 9780262281515 9780262264044 0262264048 9780262161787 9780262661218 9780585003115 PB - Cambridge : MIT Press, DB - UniCat KW - Animal rights. KW - Animal welfare. KW - BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General KW - Animal welfare KW - Animal rights KW - Animal Welfare KW - Animal Rights KW - Bioethics KW - Biomedical Ethics KW - Health Care Ethics KW - Ethics, Biomedical KW - Ethics, Health Care KW - Ethics, Medical KW - Ethicists KW - Speciesism KW - Rights, Animal KW - Animal Cruelty KW - Cruelty, Animal KW - Welfare, Animal KW - Vivisection KW - Animal Use Alternatives KW - Euthanasia, Animal KW - Animal liberation KW - Animals' rights KW - Rights of animals KW - Abuse of animals KW - Animal cruelty KW - Animals KW - Animals, Cruelty to KW - Animals, Protection of KW - Animals, Treatment of KW - Cruelty to animals KW - Humane treatment of animals KW - Kindness to animals KW - Mistreatment of animals KW - Neglect of animals KW - Prevention of cruelty to animals KW - Protection of animals KW - Treatment of animals KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Abuse of KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:51303152 AB - The controversial subject of this book is the permissible use of animals by humans. Lewis Petrinovich argues that humans have a set of cognitive abilities, developing from a suite of emotional attachments, that make them unique among species. Although other animals can think, suffer, and have needs, the interests of members of the human species should triumph over comparable interests of members of other species.This book is the third in a trilogy concerned with the morality of various actions that affect the birth, life, and death of organisms. Using principles of moral philosophy, biology, evolutionary theory, neurophysiology, medicine, and cognitive science, Petrinovich discusses such topics as fetal and prenatal development, development of the mind and brain, animal liberation, morality and animal research, the eating of animals, keeping animals in zoos and as pets, and the importance of biodiversity. In the epilogue, he summarizes the main issues and discusses the moral principles governing their resolution. ER -