Understanding Animal Welfare

Dr. Edward N. Eadie holds doctorates in science, commerce, and law from Oxford, Adelaide, and the Australian National University. He has already authored "Education for Animal Welfare" also published in the Animal Welfare series. "In recent years Dr Eadie has devoted his life to research on animal suffering inflicted by humans with the aim of providing increased understanding of animal protection issues on a broad canvas, and of the role of law and education in improving the terrible situation in which many animals in various circumstances find themselves throughout the world." (source: http://www.seaviewpress.com.au/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=922)

• Introduction.- Experimentation on AnimalsThe priciples of Human Experimental Technique by W.M.S. Russel and R.L. Burch, published 1959.- Intensive Farming IndustryAnimal Machines - The New Factory Farming Industry by Ruth Harrison, published 1964.- Immortality of Man's Treatment of AnimalsAnimal Liberation - Towards an End to Man's Inhumanity to Animals by Peter Singer, published 1975.- History of Challenges to SpeciesismAnimal Revolution - Changing Attitudes Towards Speciesism by Richard Ryder, published 1989.- Science of Animal Behaviour and WelfareAnimal Welfare - A Cool Eye Towards Eden by John Webster, published 1995.- Practical Ethics in Achievement of Direct ReformEthics into Action - Henry Spira and the Animal Rights Movement by Peter Singer, published 1998.- Politics of Animal ProtectionPolitical Animals - Animal Protection Politics in Britain and the United States by Roger Garner, published 1998.- Legislative Enactment for Animal Protection, Animal Welfare Law in Britain - Regulation and Responsibility by Mike Radford, published 2001.- Conclusions.

From the reviews: "In Understanding Animal Welfare, Eadie selects eight influential books in the animal protection movement, and discusses their influence under a standard format. ... each of the chapters is dedicated to a book in chronological order of publication. ... I recommend Understanding Animal Welfare: An Integrated Approach, and praise it for its holism and ambitious aim of weaving disparate fields and themes together." (Steven P. McCulloch, Animal Welfare, Vol. 22 (2), May, 2013)