The ethics of captivity
By: edited by Lori Gruen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780199977994; 9780199978007
Subjects: Dignity; Autonomy; Animal rights; Captivity
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Canis familiaris: Companion and Captive / Alexandra Horowitz; title: Cetacean Captivity / Lori Marino; title: Captive Elephants / Catherine Doyle; title: Captive Chimpanzees / Stephen R. Ross; title: Rabbits in Captivity / Margo DeMello; title: Captivity in the Context of Sanctuary for Formerly Farmed Animals / Miriam Jones; title: Life Behind Bars / John Bryant, James Davis, David Haywood, Clyde Meikle, and Andre Pierce; title: Political Captivity / Lauren Gazzola; title: For Their Own Good: Captive Cats and Routine Confinement / Clare Palmer and Peter Sandoe; title: Born in Chains? The Ethics of Animal Domestication / Alasdair Cochrane; title: The Confinement of Animals Used in Laboratory Research: Conceptual and Ethical Issues / Robert Streiffer; title: Captive for Life: Conserving Extinct in the Wild Species through Ex Situ Breeding / Iris Braverman; title: Sanctuary, Not Remedy: The Problem of Captivity and Need for Moral Repair / Karen S. Emmerman; title: Dignity, Captivity, and an Ethics of Sight / Lori Gruen; title: Coercian and Captivity / Lisa Rivera.