Welfare biology is a proposed interdisciplinary field concerned with the welfare of sentient beings in relation to their environment. The concept was introduced by the economist Yew-Kwang Ng in 1995, when he defined it as the study of living organisms and their surroundings with respect to welfare, understood as the balance of enjoyment and suffering.
Welfare biology is a proposed interdisciplinary field concerned with the welfare of sentient beings in relation to their environment. The concept was introduced by the economist Yew-Kwang Ng in 1995, when he defined it as the study of living organisms and their surroundings with respect to welfare, understood as the balance of enjoyment and suffering.
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