Daniel M Weary & Peter Sandøe 
Dilemmas in Animal Welfare 

There are many ongoing debates within and about the subject of animal welfare. This book distils some of the major themes of current debate into one volume, edited by internationally known names in the field of animal welfare. Each chapter is written by one or more leading experts who discuss, in an even-handed way, a provocative topic that will be of interest to anyone concerned with animal welfare. Issues covered include tail docking, farm animal production, neutering of feral cats and the need to conserve habitats of native wild animals in the face of threats from non-native species. Chapters address the different values and priorities involved in dealing with these issues, including scientific and more explicit ethical approaches. Each chapter ends with questions for discussion that may help readers to engage with these dilemmas.

Despre autor

Anna Olsson (I. A. S. Olsson) is Researcher and Group Leader at i3S-Institute for Research and Innovation in Health, University of Porto since 2004. She has a background in animal science and holds a Ph D in ethology from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Her research focuses on behaviour and welfare of domestic (laboratory, farm and companion) animals and ethics of (animal) research and technology. She has established and coordinates training in laboratory animal science for researchers at i3S (FELASA accredited course). At the University of Porto, she has developed the ethics module for three Ph D programs (PDN, GABBA, MCBiology) and is one of the founders of the interdisciplinary art-science module Biolaboratório.

Anna Olsson chairs the institutional animal welfare and ethics review body since 2010. She is Trustee for Universities Federation of Animal Welfare / Humane Slaughter Association (since 2016) and Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Swiss 3Rs Competence Centre (since 2018). She is Editorial board member for the journal Laboratory Animals (since 2004) and academic editor for PLOS ONE (since 2016). She is the co-editor of two textbooks Animal ethics in animal research (Cambridge University Press) and Animal Welfare (CABI International).