Animal Suffering: Philosophy and Culture
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 t
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provide a range of key introductory and advanced texts that map out ethical positions on animals; publish pioneering work written by new, as well as accomplished, scholars; and produce texts from a variety of disciplines that are multidisciplinary in character or have multidisciplinary relevance.
Titles include: Elisa Aaltola ANIMAL SUFFERING: PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURE Aysha Akhtar ANIMAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH Why Treating Animals Better Is Critical to Human Welfare Alasdair Cochrane AN INTRODUCTION TO ANIMALS AND POLITICAL THEORY Andrew Knight THE COSTS AND BENEFITS OF ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS Randy Malamud AN INTRODUCTION TO ANIMALS IN VISUAL CULTURE Claire Molloy POPULAR MEDIA AND ANIMAL ETHICS Siobhan O’Sullivan ANIMALS, EQUALITY AND DEMOCRACY Kay Peggs ANIMALS AND SOCIOLOGY Thomas Ryan SOCIAL WORK AND ANIMALS: A MORAL INTRODUCTION Joan Schaffner AN INTRODUCTION TO ANIMALS AND THE LAW
Forthcoming titles: Mark Bernstein HUMAN ANIMAL RELATIONS: THE OBLIGATION TO CARE Eleonora Gullone ANIMAL ABUSE AND HUMAN AGGRESSION Alastair Harden ANIMALS IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD: ETHICAL PERCEPTIONS Lisa Johnson POWER, KNOWLEDGE, ANIMALS
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Animal Suffering: Philosophy and Culture Elisa Aaltola University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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