Animals, Equality and Democracy
Title | Animals, Equality and Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | S. O'Sullivan |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 348 |
Release | 2015-12-11 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0230349188 |
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 of justice and transparency.
An Introduction to Animals and Visual Culture
Title | An Introduction to Animals and Visual Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Randy Malamud |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 176 |
Release | 2012-05-30 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1137009837 |
How and why do people "frame" animals so pervasively, and what are the ramifications of this habit? For animals, being put into a cultural frame (a film, a website, a pornographic tableau, an advertisement, a cave drawing, a zoo) means being taken out of their natural contexts, leaving them somehow displaced and decontextualized. Human vision of the animal equates to power over the animal. We envision ourselves as monarchs of all we survey, but our dismal record of polluting and destroying vast swaths of nature shows that we are indeed not masters of the ecosphere. A more ethically accurate stance in our relationship to animals should thus challenge the omnipotence of our visual access to them.
Animals and Social Work: A Moral Introduction
Title | Animals and Social Work: A Moral Introduction PDF eBook |
Author | T. Ryan |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | 214 |
Release | 2011-01-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9781349323265 |
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 for the discipline and its practitioners.
Animals and Public Health
Title | Animals and Public Health PDF eBook |
Author | A. Akhtar |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 311 |
Release | 2012-02-14 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0230358527 |
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.
The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
Title | The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Linzey |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | |
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Power, Knowledge, Animals
Title | Power, Knowledge, Animals PDF eBook |
Author | L. Johnson |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | 172 |
Release | 2012-10-10 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780230282575 |
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 that are understood to convey true things.
Killing Happy Animals: Explorations in Utilitarian Ethics
Title | Killing Happy Animals: Explorations in Utilitarian Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | Tatjana ViĊĦak |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013-08-23 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9781137286260 |
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 utilitarianism, with surprising conclusions.