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Rattling the cage : toward legal rights for animals / Steven M. Wise ; foreword my Jane Goodall.
LIBRA KF3841 .W57 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wise, Steven M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animal welfare--Law and legislation--United States.
- Animal welfare.
- Animal welfare--Law and legislation.
- Animal welfare--Moral and ethical aspects.
- United States.
- Animal welfare--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Animal rights--United States.
- Animal rights.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 362 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Toward legal rights for animals
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Perseus Books, [2000]
- Summary:
- Based on scientific research, Wise contends that animals should also have legal rights that prevent them from having to endure abuse and imprisonment.
- Contents:
- 1 The Problem with Being a Thing 1
- 2 Trapped in a Universe That No Longer Exists 9
- 3 The Legal Thinghood of Nonhuman Animals 23
- 4 Border Crossings 35
- 5 What Are Legal Rights? 49
- 6 Liberty and Equality 63
- 7 The Common Law 89
- 8 Consciousness, Taxonomy, and Minds 119
- 9 Seasons of the Mind 163
- 10 Chimpanzee and Bonobo Minds 179
- 11 Bending Toward Justice 239
- 12 Epilogue: Other Cages, Other Peaks 267.
- Notes:
- "A Merloyd Lawrence book."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-337) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0738200654
- OCLC:
- 43333970
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