Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series – serie
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Introduction to Animals and the Law
Inbunden, 2010
1425 kr
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This exploration of the newly emerging, diverse, and controversial area of animal lawpresents a basic survey of the laws designed to protect animals, analyzing and critiquing them, and proposing a future where the legal regime properly recognizes and protects the inherent worth of all animals.
Introduction to Animals and the Law
Häftad, 2010
1425 kr
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This exploration of the newly emerging, diverse, and controversial area of animal lawpresents a basic survey of the laws designed to protect animals, analyzing and critiquing them, and proposing a future where the legal regime properly recognizes and protects the inherent worth of all animals.
Animal Cruelty, Antisocial Behaviour, and Aggression
More than a Link
Inbunden, 2012
552 kr
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Demonstrating that animal cruelty behaviours are another form of antisocial behaviour, alongside human aggression and violence, and almost without exception are carried out by the same individuals this book offers clear recommendations for future research on animal cruelty and future action aimed …
Popular Media and Animals
Inbunden, 2011
1316 kr
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How do mainstream film, television, advertising, videogames and newspapers engage with topics such as vivisection, hunting, animal performance, farming, meat eating and animal control? This book explores social, economic, ethical and cultural aspects of relationships between popular media forms and …
Introduction to Animals and Political Theory
Inbunden, 2010
552 kr
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Structured around the five most important schools within contemporary political theory: liberalism, utilitarianism, communitarianism, Marxism and feminism, this is the first introductory level text to offer an accessible overview on the status of animals in contemporary political theory.
Introduction to Animals and Political Theory
Häftad, 2010
607 kr
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Structured around the five most important schools within contemporary political theory: liberalism, utilitarianism, communitarianism, Marxism and feminism, this is the first introductory level text to offer an accessible overview on the status of animals in contemporary political theory.
Animals, Equality and Democracy
Inbunden, 2011
1207 kr
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Animals, Equality and Democracy examines the structure of animal protection legislation and finds that it is deeply inequitable, with a tendency to favour those animals the community is most likely to see and engage with. Siobhan O'Sullivan argues that these inequities violate fundamental principle …
Costs and Benefits of Animal Experiments
Inbunden, 2011
552 kr
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A comprehensive review of recent scientific evidence examining the contributions of animal experimentation to human healthcare. The book also explores toxicity prediction, animal use during life and health sciences education, impacts on student attitudes toward animals, and the extent to which …
Animals and Public Health
Why Treating Animals Better is Critical to Human Welfare
Av A. Akhtar
Inbunden, 2012
1860 kr
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A compelling argument of how human health is adversely affected by our poor treatment of non-human animals. The author contents that in order to successfully confront the 21st Century's health challenges, we need to broaden the definition of the word 'public' in public health to include non-human …
Animals and Social Work: A Moral Introduction
Av T. Ryan
Inbunden, 2011
552 kr
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Social Work and Animals represents a pioneering contribution to the literature of social work ethics and moral philosophy. It advances cogent and detailed arguments for the inclusion of animals within social work's moral framework, arguments that have profound theoretical and practical implications …
Animals in the Classical World
Ethical Perspectives from Greek and Roman Texts
Av A. Harden
Inbunden, 2013
635 kr
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This sourcebook presents nearly 200 specially-translated Greek and Roman texts from Homer to Plutarch, revealing the place of the animal in the moral consciousness of the Classical era. Philosophical, historical, dramatic and poetic texts explore how animals were regarded in all aspects of ancient …
Moral Equality of Humans and Animals
Inbunden, 2015
1097 kr
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Received opinion has it that humans are morally superior to non-human animals; human interests matter more than the like interests of animals and the value of human lives is alleged to be greater than the value of nonhuman animal lives. Since this belief causes mayhem and murder, its …
Power, Knowledge, Animals
Av L. Johnson
Inbunden, 2012
552 kr
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This work contributes to the development of a theoretical context of the politics of truth about animals. By applying and extending Foucault's theory of power, this work uncovers dominant and subjugated discourses about animals and describes power-knowledge associated with statements about animals …
Animal Suffering: Philosophy and Culture
Av E. Aaltola
Inbunden, 2012
1097 kr
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Exploring how animal suffering is made meaningful within Western ramifications, the book investigates themes such as skepticism concerning non-human experience, cultural roots of compassion, and contemporary approaches to animal ethics. At its center is the pivotal question: What is the moral …
Animals and Sociology
Av K. Peggs
Inbunden, 2012
552 kr
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Animals and Sociology challenges traditional assumptions about the nature of sociology. Sociology often centres on humans; however, other animals are everywhere in society. Kay Peggs explores the significant contribution that sociology can make to our understanding of human relations with other …
Animals and Sociology
Av K. Peggs
Häftad, 2012
606 kr
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Animals and Sociology challenges traditional assumptions about the nature of sociology. Sociology often centres on humans; however, other animals are everywhere in society. Kay Peggs explores the significant contribution that sociology can make to our understanding of human relations with other …
Introduction to Animals and Visual Culture
Av R. Malamud
Inbunden, 2012
552 kr
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A fascinating exploration of the way in which animals are 'framed' - contextualized, decontextualized - in contemporary visual culture. Written in a highly engaging style, this book challenges the field, dealing with some highly controversial aspects of animal exploitation and boldly examines …
Introduction to Animals and Visual Culture
Av R. Malamud
Häftad, 2012
607 kr
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A fascinating exploration of the way in which animals are 'framed' - contextualized, decontextualized - in contemporary visual culture. Written in a highly engaging style, this book challenges the field, dealing with some highly controversial aspects of animal exploitation and boldly examines …
Killing Happy Animals: Explorations in Utilitarian Ethics
Av Tatjana Visak, Kenneth A. Loparo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
989 kr
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Is it acceptable to kill an animal that has been granted a pleasant life? This book rigorously explores the moral basis of the ideal of animal-friendly animal husbandry and sheds new light on utilitarian moral theory by pointing out the assumptions and implications of two different versions of …
Costs and Benefits of Animal Experiments
Häftad, 2011
552 kr
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A comprehensive review of recent scientific evidence examining the contributions of animal experimentation to human healthcare. The book also explores toxicity prediction, animal use during life and health sciences education, impacts on student attitudes toward animals, and the extent to which …
Christian Theology and the Status of Animals
The Dominant Tradition and Its Alternatives
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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The author argues that there are conflicting traditions with regard to the question of what is the moral standing of animals according to Christianity. The dominant tradition maintains that animals are primarily resources but there are alternative strands of Christian thought that challenge this …
Palgrave Handbook of Practical Animal Ethics
Av Andrew Linzey, Clair Linzey
Inbunden, 2018
2188 kr
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This handbook provides an in-depth examination of the practical and theoretical issues within the emerging field of animal ethics. Leading experts from around the globe offer insights into cutting edge topics as diverse as killing for food, religious slaughter, animal companions, aquariums, genetic …
Animals in Social Work
Why and How They Matter
Av T. Ryan
Inbunden, 2014
1207 kr
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This collection of essays articulates theoretical and philosophical arguments, and advances practical applications, as to why animals ought to matter to social work, in and of themselves. It serves as a persuasive corrective to the current invisibility of animals in contemporary social work …
Animals in China
Law and Society
Av Deborah Cao
Inbunden, 2015
1098 kr
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Just as China is called the world factory for manufactured goods, it is also a world factory for manufactured animal cruelty in a new phenomenon of globalized animal cruelty. Animals in China examines animal protection in China in its legal, social and cultural contexts.
Political Animals and Animal Politics
Av Marcel Wissenburg, David Schlosberg
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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While much has been written on environmental politics on the one hand, and animal ethics and welfare on the other, animal politics is underexamined. There are key political implications in the increase of animal protection laws, the rights of nature, and political parties dedicated to animals.
Animals and the Economy
Inbunden, 2016
1098 kr
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This bookexplores the economic institutions that determine the nature of animal lives assystematically exploited objects traded in a market economy. It examines humanroles and choice in the system, including the economic logic of agriculture,experimentation, and animal ownership, and analyses the …
Animals and African Ethics
Inbunden, 2015
879 kr
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The claim is frequently made on behalf of African moral beliefs and practices that they do not objectify and exploit nature and natural existents like Western ethics does. This book investigates whether this is correct and what kind of status is reserved for other-than-human animals in African …
Mobilizing Traditions in the First Wave of the British Animal Defense Movement
Av Chien-hui Li
Inbunden, 2019
1425 kr
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This book explores the British animal defense movement’s mobilization of the cultural and intellectual traditions of its time- from Christianity and literature, to natural history, evolutionism and political radicalism- in its struggle for the cause of animals in the nineteenth and early twentieth …
Animals in the Writings of C. S. Lewis
Inbunden, 2017
1137 kr
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This book examines C. S. Lewis’s writings about animals, and the theological bases of his opposition to vivisection and other cruelties. It argues Genesis is central to many of these ethical musings and the book’s organization reflects this. It treats in turn Lewis’s creative approaches to the …
Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain
A Social History
Av A.W.H. Bates
Inbunden, 2017
312 kr
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book explores the social history of the anti-vivisection movement in Britain from its nineteenth-century beginnings until the 1960s. It discusses the ethical principles that inspired the movement and the socio-political background that …
