Description
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 manipulation, hunting for sport and bullfighting. Including contributions from Lisa Johnson on the themes of human dominance, Thomas White on the ethics of captivity, Mark Bernstein on the ethics of killing and Kay Peggs on the causation of suffering, this handbook offers an authoritative reference work for contemporary applied animal ethics. Progressive in approach, the authors explore the challenges that animal ethics poses both conceptually and practically to traditional understandings of human–animal relations.
Key Features:
· Structured in four parts to examine the ethics of control, the ethics of captivity, the ethics of killing and the ethics of causing suffering
· Interdisciplinary approach including philosophical, historical, scientific, legal, anthropological, religious, psychological and sociological perspectives
· Focussed treatment of practical issues such as animals in farming, zoos and animal experimentation
The Palgrave Handbook of Practical Animal Ethics is an essential resource for those with an interest in the ethics of modern-day treatment of animals as well as scholars, researchers and advanced students in zoology, philosophy, anthropology, religious studies and sociology.
Table of Contents
Series Editors’ Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Editors and Contributors.- 1. Introduction: The Challenge of Animal Ethics. Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey.- Section I: The Ethics of Control.- 2. Introduction: The Ethics of Control. Lisa Johnson.- 3. Animal Justice as Non-Domination. Valéry Giroux and Carl Saucier-Bouffard.- 4. Rethinking the Ethic of Human Dominance. Grace Clement.- 5. Chain of Fools. Les Mitchell.- 6.< Our Moral Duties to Ill and Aging Companion Animals. Faith Bjalobok.- 7. Speciesism and the Ideology of Domination in the Italian Philosophical Tradition. Leonardo Caffo.- 8. Bioengineering, Animal Advocacy, and the Ethics of Control. Jodey Castricano.- Section II: The Ethics of Captivity.- 9. Introduction: The Ethics of Captivity. Thomas I. White.- 10. Incarceration, Liberty, and Dignity. Lori Gruen.- 11. Speciesism and Zoos: Shifting the Paradigm, Maintaining the Prejudice. Elizabeth Tyson.- 12. Elephants in Captivity. Catherine Doyle.- 13. Whales, Dolphins and Humans: Challenges in Interspecies Ethics. Thomas I. White.- 14. important="" conceptions="" used="" to="" justify="" hunting. priscilla="" n.="" cohn.-="" 21.="" comparing="" wrongness="" humans="" animals. mark="" bernstein.- Section IV: The Ethics of Causing Suffering.- 22. Introduction: The Ethics of Causing Suffering. Kay Peggs.- 23. Animal Suffering Matters. Kay Peggs.- 24. Human Duties, Animal Suffering, and Animal Rights: A Legal Reevaluation. Darren Sean Calley.- 25. Suffering Existence: Nonhuman Animals and Ethics. Kay Peggs and Barry Smart.- 26. Suffering of Animals in Food Production: Problems and Practical Solutions. Akisha Townsend Eaton.- 27. Suffering for Science and How Science Supports the End of Animal Experiments. Aysha Akhtar.- 28. Bullfighting: The Legal Protection of Suffering. Lidia de Tienda Palop.- 28. Free-roaming Animals, Killing, and Suffering: The Case of African Elephants; Kai Horsthemke.- 30. The Dog that is Willing to Die: The “Ethics” of Animal Fighting; Randall Lockwood.- Index.
