Pleasurable Kingdom
Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good by Jonathan Balcombe
- Published: Oct 10, 2020
The recognition of animal pain and stress, once controversial, is now acknowledged by legislation in many countries, but there is no formal recognition of animals' ability to feel pleasure. Pleasurable Kingdom is the first book for lay-readers to... read more
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Details of Pleasurable Kingdom
- Exact title of the book
- Pleasurable Kingdom
- Book author
- Jonathan Balcombe
- ISBN
- 9780230552272
- Book series
- MacSci
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Publishing Group
- Published
- May 02, 2006
- Language
- English
- Format
- PDF, FB2, EPUB, MOBI
- Pages
- 256
- File size (in PDF)
- 2304 kB
Some brief overview of book
The recognition of animal pain and stress, once controversial, is now acknowledged by legislation in many countries, but there is no formal recognition of animals' ability to feel pleasure. Pleasurable Kingdom is the first book for lay-readers to present new evidence that animals-like humans-enjoy themselves. It debunks the popular perception that life for most is a continuous, grim struggle for survival and the avoidance of pain.
Instead it suggests that creatures from birds to baboons feel good thanks to play, sex, touch, food, anticipation, comfort, aesthetics, and more. Combining rigorous evidence, elegant argument and amusing anecdotes, leading animal behavior researcher Jonathan Balcombe proposes that the possibility of positive feelings in creatures other than humans has important ethical ramifications for both science and society.
About author
Balcombe is Animal Behaviour Research Consultant for the Washington DC-based Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and the author of The Use of Animals in Higher Education Problems, Alternatives and Recommendations. He lives in Washington DC.
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