The Unheeded Cry: Animal Consciousness, Animal Pain, and Science, Expanded Edition - Softcover

Rollin, Bernard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813825768 ISBN 13: 9780813825762

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 1998

Synopsis

How can science teach us that animals feel no pain when our common sense observations tell us otherwise? Rollin offers a welcome insight into questions like this in The Unheeded Cry, a rare, reasonable account of the difficult and controversial issues surrounding the images of animals found in science. Widely hailed on its first appearance, the book is updated here to include recent changes in thinking and practice in this fast growing field.

With anecdotes and a dose of humour, Rollin pokes holes in the neutral, objective, and value-free stance of animal-using scientists in the positivist tradition. He shows how this stance leads to the denial of the existence of animal consciousness and pain, and he points out the consequences. His work will help professionals and amateurs with an interest in the moral status of animals in their attempts to penetrate the fortress of scientific ideology and practice, and to effect change.

About this title

Book Description:

How can science teach us that animals feel no pain when our common sense observations tell us otherwise?

About the Author:

Bernard E. Rollin is the 2016 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award given by the organization Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research. Rollin has served on the Pew National Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production and on the Institute for Laboratory Animal Resources Council of the National Academy of Sciences. A University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University, he lives in Fort Collins, CO.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0813825768
• ISBN 13: 9780813825762
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 330