Title: Moral Awareness and Animal Welfare
Subject Classification:  Bioethics, Society and Culture, Morals  
BIC Classification: PSAD, JFFZ, JF
BISAC Classification: NAT039000, PSY054000, SOC000000
Binding: Hardback, Paperback, eBook
Publication date: 10 Oct 2022
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-80441-024-0
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-80441-025-7
ISBN (Paperback): 978-1-80441-259-6

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Description

This book is written for researchers, students and professionals in areas including animal welfare ethics, animal behaviourists, veterinarians, veterinary nurses, animal welfare counsellors, animal trainers, and professionals and volunteers with an interest in animal welfare ethics. Several of the main areas of ethical inquiry concerning animals are introduced, explained and analysed. Inquiries also cover areas of cultural and religious sensitiveness regarding the welfare of animals, examining the scope of respect for particular cultures and their practical approaches to animal well-being. Unlike many books which feature arguments about ethical theories this book includes elements of personal experience with animals. Although the author is an academic teaching within a university structure, he is also a professional animal trainer.

Biography

Author(s):  David Lamb is Honorary Reader in Bioethics, University of Birmingham, UK; Lecturer in Animal Welfare Ethics in the University of Southampton; and Member of the Ethics Committee at Marwell Zoo, Winchester, UK

Reviews

"Despite the importance of animal welfare science for animal ethics, few philosophers and ethicists have made the effort to closely engage with this branch of science, and Lamb’s book provides an opportunity for people interested in bringing ethics and animal welfare science closer together. The book is accessibly written and though it is intended for a broad audience, it mostly targets animal welfare researchers who have less familiarity with the philosophical and animal ethics literature. The book is highly opinionated, and most readers will find much to both agree and disagree with. He covers a range of controversial topics, such as the role of anthropomorphism and anti-anthropomorphism in the animal sciences, the relevance of autonomy to moral consideration, the possession of concepts and use of language by animals, the role of animal aesthetics, the importance of caring relationships with animals, and the harms of killing animals. However, the primary focus is on two separate but related topics – the relevance of consciousness to moral status, and the scientific investigation of consciousness. The ethical debates are presented in a simple and accessible manner and could in principle be read by anyone, so long as they keep in mind that the author is providing this survey with a distinct point of view and should thus be read with a critical eye. The book raises many thought-provoking questions, and we believe it would make for a worthwhile library addition for those interested in the ethical questions that lie alongside the scientific study of animal welfare."
- Animal Welfare, Volume 32, 2023, e39 (Authors: Heather Browning and Walter Veit).

"For 40 years David Lamb has written incisively and compassionately on ethics. His latest book, Moral Awareness and Animal Welfare provides scholarly critiques of the main standard positions on the ethical status of (non-human) animals but does so with immense warmth and care. The book also offers clear and powerful critical evaluations of subjectivist, utilitarian and cost-benefit approaches to human-animal relationships. There are numerous pertinent examples and case studies that clarify and demonstrate his argument. This is a vital book for anyone living and working with animals or interested in applied animal ethics."
- Dr Benjamin Franks, Senior Lecturer in Social and Political Philosophy, School of Social and Environmental Sustainability, University of Glasgow.