The ethics of captivity / edited by Lori Gruen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gruen, Lori, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal rights.

Captivity.

Autonomy.

Dignity.

Physical Description:

xii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Summary:

In the United States roughly 2 million people are incarcerated; billions of animals are held captive (and then killed) in the food industry every year; hundreds of thousands of animals are kept in laboratories; thousands are in zoos and aquaria; millions of "pets" are captive in our homes.

Contents:

Canis familiaris: Companion and Captive / Alexandra Horowitz

Cetacean Captivity / Lori Marino

Captive Elephants / Catherine Doyle

Captive Chimpanzees / Stephen R. Ross

Rabbits in Captivity / Margo DeMello

Captivity in the Context of Sanctuary for Formerly Farmed Animals / Miriam Jones

Life Behind Bars / John Bryant, James Davis, David Haywood, Clyde Meikle, and Andre Pierce

Political Captivity / Lauren Gazzola

For Their Own Good: Captive Cats and Routine Confinement / Clare Palmer and Peter Sandoe

Born in Chains? The Ethics of Animal Domestication / Alasdair Cochrane

The Confinement of Animals Used in Laboratory Research: Conceptual and Ethical Issues / Robert Streiffer

Captive for Life: Conserving Extinct in the Wild Species through Ex Situ Breeding / Iris Braverman

Sanctuary, Not Remedy: The Problem of Captivity and Need for Moral Repair / Karen S. Emmerman

Dignity, Captivity, and an Ethics of Sight / Lori Gruen

Coercian and Captivity / Lisa Rivera.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199977994

0199977992

9780199978007

019997800X

OCLC:

870290956