1: Some Theories of Human Health and Welfare 2: An Overview of Historical Conceptions of Human Health 3: A Starting-point: Two Modern Streams of Philosophy of Human Health and Disease 4: The Place of Evolutionary Theory in the Philosophy of Health and Welfare 5: Two Classic Theories of Human Welfare 6: A Background to the Analysis of Welfare or Quality of Life in the Human Sciences 7: Some Contemporary Theories of Human Welfare or Quality of Life 8: Theories of Animal Health and Welfare 9: Ideas on Animal Health 10: Some Examples of Ideas on Animal Welfare 11: Biological Theories of Animal Welfare 12: Theories of Welfare, Ethics and Values 13: Theories of Welfare in Terms of Subjective Well-Being 14: On Animal Minds: A Digression 15: On Quality of Life in Animals 16: The Idea of Welfare as Fulfillment of Preferences 17: Theories of Welfare in Terms of Needs 18: Theories of Welfare in Terms of Natural Behaviour 19: On Complex Views of Animal Welfare 20: On Conflicts Between Individual and Systemic Welfare 21: Welfare and Time 22: Summing up the Analysis 23: A Holistic Approach to Animal Health and Welfare 24: Towards a Holistic Theory of Health in Animal Science 25: Towards a Happiness Theory of Welfare in the Animal Context Appendix: On Amartya Sen’s theory of functionings and capabilities

"In this book, Lennart Nordenfelt makes a careful and thoughtful analysis of these concepts, based on a thorough reading of the veterinary and animal science literature combined with his own deep understanding of the parallel debates in the human health field. His analysis moves a cluttered and conflicted topic onto a higher plane." David Fraser, University of British Columbia, Canada"

In veterinary and animal science, the concepts "welfare", "well-being" and "quality of life" have been applied to animals in a bewildering variety of ways. In this book, Lennart Nordenfelt makes a careful and thoughtful analysis of these concepts, based on a thorough reading of the veterinary and animal science literature combined with his own deep understanding of the parallel debates in the human health field. His analysis moves a cluttered and conflicted topic onto a higher plane. Nordenfelt is a philosopher who writes in a clear, unpretentious style that makes the book easily accessible to scientific readers. He has made a valuable contribution to the veterinary and animal sciences. -David Fraser, University of British Columbia, Canada