Animal rights : current debates and new directions / edited by Cass R. Sunstein and Martha C. Nussbaum.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sunstein, Cass R.

Nussbaum, Martha C. (Martha Craven), 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Contributors to this volume explore the legal and political issues that underlie the campaign for animal rights and the opposition to it. Ethical questions on ownership, protection against suffering and the ability of animals to make their own choices free from human control are thought-provokingly examined.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Introduction: What Are Animal Rights?; 1 Animal Rights, One Step at a Time; 2 Animal Rights: Legal, Philosophical, and Pragmatic Perspectives; 3 Ethics beyond Species and beyond Instincts: A Response to Richard Posner; 4 Eating Meat and Eating People; 5 Animals-Property or Persons?; 6 Animals as Objects, or Subjects, of Rights; 7 Drawing Lines; 8 All Animals Are Not Equal: The Interface between Scientific Knowledge and Legislation for Animal Rights; 9 Foxes in the Hen House: Animals, Agribusiness, and the Law: A Modern American Fable

10 A New Property Status for Animals: Equitable Self-Ownership11 Can Animals Sue?; 12 Of Mice and Men: A Feminist Fragment on Animal Rights; 13 Animal Rights and the Values of Nonhuman Life; 14 Beyond "Compassion and Humanity": Justice for Nonhuman Animals; Bibliographic Essay; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-324) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-56016-9

0-19-803473-3

1-4237-2013-X

OCLC:

476025248