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The unheeded cry : animal consciousness, animal pain, and science / Bernard E. Rollin.

by Rollin, Bernard E.

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Columbia, MO : University of Missouri Press, 2017

Animal experimentation.

Animal welfare.

Animal psychology.

9780826221261 (pbk.)

0826221262 (pbk.)

xviii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

1. Science, common sense, and the common sense of science -- 2. Animal consciousness as an object of study -- 3. Aspects of change in science and philosophy -- 4. tortuous path from Romanes to Watson -- 5. Animal pain: the ideology cashed out, 1 -- 6. Animal pain: the ideology cashed out, 2 -- 7. Morality and animal pain: the reappropriation of common sense -- 8. Consciousness lost -- 9. Consciousness regained: psychology -- 10. Consciousness regained: ethology and beyond -- 11. Unheeded Cry revisited.

This work evaluates the stance of animal-using scientists in the positivist tradition. It shows how this stance leads to the denial of the existence of animal consciousness and pain, and shows how this denial must be changed if science is to be both coherent and morally responsible.

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