Название: Animals and Human Society
Автор: Scanes C., Toukhsati S. (Eds.)
Издательство: Academic Press
Год: 2018
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 528
Размер: 50 mb
Язык: английский

This book provides a solid, scientific, research-based background to advance understanding of how animals impact humans. As a resource for both science and non-science majors (including students planning to major in or studying animal science, pre-veterinary medicine, animal behavior, conservation biology, ecotoxicology, epidemiology and evolutionary biology), the book can be used as a text for courses in Animals and Human Society or Animal Science, or as supplemental material for an Introduction to Animal Science. The book offers foundational background to those who may have little background in animal agriculture and have focused interest on companion animals and horses.

Animals have had profound effects on people from the earliest times, ranging from zoonotic diseases, to the global impact of livestock, poultry and fish production, to the influences of human-associated animals on the environment (on extinctions, air and water pollution, greenhouse gases, etc.), to the importance of animals in human evolution and hunter-gatherer communities. View more

Key Features
Features research-based and pedagogically sound content, with learning goals and textboxes to provide key information
Challenges readers to consider issues based on facts rather than polemics
Poses ethical questions and raises overall societal impacts
Balances traditional animal science with companion animals, animal biology, zoonotic diseases, animal products, environmental impacts and all aspects of human/animal interaction
Includes access to PowerPoints that facilitate easy adoption and/or use for online classes
Readership
Undergrads in science and non-science majors, in biological science, pre-veterinary science, public health, animal science (internationally zootechnica), veterinary technicians, non-natural science majors, and as a recommended or required text for a class in Animals and Human Society or freshman Animal Science, as well as independently of courses, such as for researchers/ instructors/ graduates/postdocs and/or upper undergraduates in the above-mentioned disciplines and animal behavior, animal science, agriculture, food science, evolutionary biology, conservation biology, ecotoxicology, environmental science, veterinary medicine, public health, infectious disease/epidemiology and zooethnography and other interested readers with a background in biology