Some we love, some we hate, some we eat why it's so hard to think straight about animals
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062010704 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- ISBN: 0062010700 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
-
Physical Description:
electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (viii, 326 p.) - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Harper, c2010.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Description based on print version record. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: Why is it so hard to think straight about animals? -- Anthrozoology : the new science of human-animal interactions -- The importance of being cute : why we think what we think about creatures that don't think like us -- Pet-o-philia : why do humans (and only humans) love pets? -- Friends, foes, and fashion statements : the human-dog relationship -- "Prom queen kills first deer on sixteenth birthday" : gender and the human-animal relationship -- In the eyes of the beholder : the comparative cruelty of cockfights and Happy Meals -- Delicious, dangerous, disgusting, and dead : the human-meat relationship -- The moral status of mice : the use of animals in science -- The cats in our houses, the cows on our plates : are we all hypocrites? -- The carnivorous yahoo within ourselves : dealing with moral inconsistency. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Human-animal relationships Interdisciplinary research |
Genre: | Electronic books. |