by Neville G. Gregory
Physiology and Behaviour of Animal Suffering is the first to address the physiological aspects of suffering in animals.
Features:
- explores the different causes of suffering physical discomfort, thirst and hunger, the responses in the body that lead to suffering and it offers insight into how suffering can be managed
- draws together information that is scattered across the literature
- written for the specialist and non-specialist alike
- illustrated throughout with line drawings, charts, black/white and color photographs
Contents
Introduction
- What Is Suffering?
- Why Worry about Suffering?
- When Can We Stop Worrying about Suffering?
- Recognising Suffering in Animals
- Can Animals Go Mad?
- Constitutes Animal Suffering?
Stress
- Stress Physiology
- Stress-related Disorders
- Restraint Stress
- Stress-induced Analgesia
- Stress-induced Seizures and Fits
Anxiety and Fear
- Anxiety
- Experimental Models
- Fear
- Fright
- Phobias
- Panic
- The Role of the Amygdala
- Losing Ones Mother
Emotional Numbness and Deprivation
- Anhedonia
- Depression
- Social isolation in the Newborn
- Sensory Deprivation in Early Life
- Sensory Deprivation in Later Life
- Social isolation and barren environments
- Stereotypies and neurotic behaviours
- Learned Helplessness
- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
- Sleep Disorders
- Weaning
- Physiology of Emotions
Aggression, Overcrowding and Discomfort
- Aggression
- Overcrowding and Confinement
- Discomfort
Exercise
- Overexertion
- Endurance Riding
- Horse-racing Injuries
- Greyhound Racing Injuries
- Migration
Cold
- Cold Discomfort and Pain
- Skin Freezing and Chilblains
- Hypothermia
- Sensitivity to Cold
- Hypothermia and Cold Survival
- Cold in Combination with Starvation
- Cold-induced Analgesia
Heat and Burns
- Heat Stress
- Heat Intolerance
- Some Species Differences
- Pain
- Burns and Scalds
Thirst and Hunger
- Thirst and Dehydration
- Overhydration
- Osmotic Stress
- Hunger
- Underfeeding
- Emaciation
- Inappropriate Diets
- Forced Moulting
- Force-feeding and Overeating
Pain
- The Value of Pain
- Pain Associated with Trauma
- Ways in Which Animals Express Pain
- Pain Pathways and Consciousness
- Cortical Regions
- Applied Neurology of Pain
- Pain in a Given Context
Trauma
- Injuries in Selected Body Regions and Tissues
- Some Common Causes of Injury
- Intended or Avoidable Causes of Trauma
- Types of Injury
Sickness and Disease
- Is Suffering an Inevitable Consequence of Being Ill?
- Do the Behaviours Expressed During Sickness Serve a Purpose?
- Cytokines and Sickness Behaviours
- Cancer
- Stress and Immune Function
- Corticosteroid Therapy
- Anaemia
- Hazards of Improving Disease Control
- Diseases Used in Controlling Pests
Digestive System
- Nausea
- Vomiting and Retching
- Gut Pain
- Diarrhoea
- Gut Injuries
- Stress and the Gut
- Gastro-intestinal Ulcers
Poisoning
- Wartime Poisons
- Environmental Toxicants
- Vertebrate Pesticides
Respiratory System
- Asphyxia
- Breathlessness
- Carbon Dioxide Inhalation
- Drowning
- Pulmonary Oedema
- Hypoxia
- Altitude Sickness
- Decompression
- Collapse of the Lung and Pneumothorax
- Asthma and Allergies
- Ammonia
- Signs of Respiratory Distress
- Agonal Gasping
Dying
- Euthanasia
- Decapitation
- Religious Slaughter
- Death from Brain Injury
- Recognising Insensibility and Brain Death
Index
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