Jessica Pierce is an internationally acclaimed bioethicist. Her work spans from broad considerations of human responsibilities for nature to detailed explorations of human-animal relationships. She has published thirteen books, including The Last Walk: Reflections On Our Pets at the End of Their Lives, and Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets, both also published by the University of Chicago Press. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, and Scientific American. Pierce is a faculty affiliate at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. She lives in the Colorado Rockies.

"Bioethicist and author Jessica Pierce has penned a wonderful guide to living life with dogs and improving your bond through respectful and joyful canine-human relationships. Who’s a Good Dog? examines how we can nurture kindness, attentiveness, and empathy when working, living, and training with our dogs."

• Introduction: We DogChapter 1: The Difficulty of Being a (Pet) DogChapter 2: Human-Dog RelationsChapter 3: Care and ConstraintChapter 4: Landscapes of Fear, Landscapes of PleasureChapter 5: Technologies of ControlChapter 6: Training Dogs to Be GoodChapter 7: Bad Dogs and Behavioral “Problems”Chapter 8: Dwelling in PossibilityAcknowledgmentsResourcesNotesBibliographyIndex

Jessica Pierce is an internationally acclaimed bioethicist. Her work spans from broad considerations of human responsibilities for nature to detailed explorations of human-animal relationships. She has published thirteen books, including The Last Walk: Reflections On Our Pets at the End of Their Lives, and Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets, both also published by the University of Chicago Press. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, and Scientific American. Pierce is a faculty affiliate at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. She lives in the Colorado Rockies.

"Bioethicist and author Jessica Pierce has penned a wonderful guide to living life with dogs and improving your bond through respectful and joyful canine-human relationships. Who’s a Good Dog? examines how we can nurture kindness, attentiveness, and empathy when working, living, and training with our dogs."

• Introduction: We DogChapter 1: The Difficulty of Being a (Pet) DogChapter 2: Human-Dog RelationsChapter 3: Care and ConstraintChapter 4: Landscapes of Fear, Landscapes of PleasureChapter 5: Technologies of ControlChapter 6: Training Dogs to Be GoodChapter 7: Bad Dogs and Behavioral “Problems”Chapter 8: Dwelling in PossibilityAcknowledgmentsResourcesNotesBibliographyIndex