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Animals and science a guide to the debates
Title:
Animals and science a guide to the debates
Author:
Shanks, Niall, 1959-
ISBN:
9781849723732

9781576078822
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Publication Information:
Santa Barbara ; Oxford : ABC-Clio, c2002.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxiv, 381 p.) : ill., ports.
Series:
Controversies in science

Controversies in science.
Contents:
Introduction: Man and beast in nature -- The essence of the problem: medieval legacies -- Gut feelings: anatomy and physiology in the Renaissance -- Minds, machines, and bodies: intelligent design in nature? -- Of mice and monkeys: the moral relevance of animal pain -- The job of physiology: animals in Nineteenth-Century medicine -- By accident or design: Darwin's theory of evolution -- Darwinism developed: the ontogeny of an idea -- The mouse as man writ small: animals in modern medicine -- Mice, mazes, and minds: explaining animal behavior -- The evolution of consciousness: a question of animal pain -- Animals through the looking glass: language and self-consciousness -- Documents.
Abstract:
Examines the debates, from the Renaissance to the present, surrounding issues of animal rights, consciousness, and self-awareness.
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