E-raamat: Pain and Suffering in Farmed Animals: First Steps in Better Understanding and Management

Part 1: The role and impact of production animals.- Pain and suffering
in farmed animals.- Sociocultural and religious influences on practices.- A
History of Pain and Suffering in Farmed Animals used for Research.-
Environmental and Ecological Impacts of Livestock Farming.- The effects of
human attitudes on farmed animal pain and its management.- Part 2: Production
animal pain and its management.- Physiology of acute pain.- Physiology of
chronic pain.- Pain in parturition.- Pain in 4D: how do early life events
create susceptibilities to pain.- Basic principles of animal pain
assessment.- Local anaesthetics and adjuvant drugs.- Part 3: Slaughter,
euthanasia and killing of production animals.- Slaughter, euthanasia and
killing of mammals.- Euthanasia and slaughter of poultry.- Part 4: Production
animal species.- Bovidae (Cattle).- Ovis (Sheep).- Pigs.- Goats.- Cervidae
(Deer).- Aves (Birds).- Pisces (Fish): Pain assessment and mitigation.-
Cephalopod pain and welfare considerations.- Crustacean pain and welfare
considerations.- Insects.

R. Eddie Clutton graduated (BVSC [ hons]) from the University of Liverpool in 1981. He worked for three years in the Department of Anaesthesia, The Royal Liverpool Hospital before moving to the University of Virginia Maryland, USA as an assistant professor in Veterinary Anesthesiology. Became Head of Veterinary Anaesthesia (University of Edinburgh) in 1990. A Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Anaesthesia, a Member of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, the Animal Welfare Science, Ethics and Law Veterinary Association and the Laboratory Animal Veterinary Association he was editor-in-chief of Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia from 2000 2000 and ex- President of the Association of Veterinary Anaesthetists. Awarded a personal Chair of Veterinary Anaesthesiology in 2007, he is currently the Academic Head of Veterinary Anaesthesia and the Clinical Director of the Wellcome Trust Critical Care Laboratory for Large Animals (Roslin Institute). 



Gabrielle C. Musk graduated from Murdoch University in Western Australia with a Bachelor of Science (Veterinary Biology) and a Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery in 1995. Since then, she has worked in clinical practice in rural South Australia and the United Kingdom. She undertook a Residency training program in Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia at the University of Glasgow from 2001 to 2004 and became a Diplomat of the European College of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia in 2005. Returning to Western Australia in 2006, Gabrielle worked in veterinary academia at Murdoch University as a Veterinary Anesthetist and then embarked upon a Ph.D. at the University of Western Australia, investigating the optimal use of positive end-expiratory pressure during high-frequency jet ventilation in preterm lambs as a model for preterm babies. At the end of her Ph.D., she became involved in the care of animals used in research. She is currently involved in teaching, reaching and clinical veterinary work.