Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare
Author: Marc Bekoff
ISBN-nr: 313299773
Category: Animal Rights Issues
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Encyclopedia of animal rights and animal welfare provides a provocative overview of the many different perspectives on the issues of animal rights and animal welfare in an easy-to-use encyclopedic format. Original contributions, from over 125 well-known philosophers, biologists, and psychologists in this field, create a well-balanced and multi-disciplinary work. Users will be able to examine critically the varied angles and arguments and gain a better understanding of the history and development of animal rights and animal protectionist movements around the world.
Encyclopedia of animal rights and animal welfare
edited by Marc Bekoff with Carron A. Meaney
Foreword by Jane Goodall.
Published by Greenwood Press, 1998
ISBN 0313299773, 978-0313299773
446 pages
From the use of animals in experiments to develop medicine for people, to the preservation of endangered species in zoos, human beings' responsibility to and for their fellow animals has become an increasingly controversial subject. This book, which Jane Goodall in her foreword calls "unique, informative, and exciting," provides a provocative overview of the many different perspectives on the issues of animal rights and animal welfare in an easy-to-use encyclopedic format. Students, teachers, and interested readers can explore the ideas of well-known philosophers, biologists, and psychologists in this field, such as Peter Singer, Tom Regan, and over 125 others, all of whom have contributed original entries.
Bekoff has provided a wide variety of well-chosen entries, defining terms and concepts and providing brief biographies, all of which relate to the topics of animal rights and animal welfare from the perspectives of many different disciplines: philosophy, psychology, ethology, anthropology, ecology, sociology, education, law, history, politics, theology, veterinary science, and public administration. The multidisciplinary approach allows users to critically examine the varied angles and arguments and gain a better understanding of the history and development of animal rights and animal protectionist movements worldwide.
Table of Contents:
Foreword by Jane Goodall
Preface
Introduction
Chronology
Alphabetical Listing of Entries
Appendix: Resources on Animal Welfare and Humane Education
Sources Index
Reviews
"Whether writing for a term paper, looking up organizations involving animal rights, or researching information as an animal lover, this is a resource chock full of information on animal rights and welfare. Coverage of issues, controversies, significant historical figures, and ideologies related to the treatment of animals are comprehensive. The essays cover a wide spectrum from the founding of the ASPCA and trapping, to religion and animals. The directory of organizations serves practical purposes, such as where to obtain a three-dimensional model of the frog for educators and both high school and college students." -"Outstanding Reference Sources : the 1999 Selection of New Titles", American Libraries, May 1999. Comp. by the Reference Sources Committee, RUSA, ALA.
"A remarkably complete but still compact volume....this is a fascinating book that will be used by animal welfare scientists, lobbyists, journalists, teachers and, one hopes, politicians. As it is the sort of book that one uses either to look up a subject or to dip into at leisure, it will continue to delight with nuggets of information for many years to come. If you want to find out what misothery is, or why insects may not feel pain, or what the Hagenbeck revolution was, I recommend that you buy this book and find out." -Animal Behaviour
Reviews
"Whether writing for a term paper, looking up organizations involving animal rights, or researching information as an animal lover, this is a resource chock full of information on animal rights and welfare. Coverage of issues, controversies, significant historical figures, and ideologies related to the treatment of animals are comprehensive. The essays cover a wide spectrum from the founding of the ASPCA and trapping, to religion and animals. The directory of organizations serves practical purposes, such as where to obtain a three-dimensional model of the frog for educators and both high school and college students." -"Outstanding Reference Sources : the 1999 Selection of New Titles", American Libraries, May 1999. Comp. by the Reference Sources Committee, RUSA, ALA.About the Editors and Contributors
DAVID C. ANDERSON publishes the quarterly Humans & Other Species. He was formerly information specialist at the University of California Center for Animal Alternatives.
ARNOLD ARLUKE is a professor of sociology and anthropology at North eastern University and a senior fellow at Tufts University Center for Animals and Public Policy.
MARTHA ARMSTRONG is vice president for companion animals at the Humane Society of the United States and an adjunct professor at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine.
JONATHAN BALCOMBE is associate director for education, Animal Re search Issues, with the Humane Society of the United States.
TOM L. BEAUCHAMP is professor of philosophy and senior research scholar at Georgetown University.
ALAN M. BECK is a professor in the School of Veterinary Medicine at Purdue University in Indiana.
ANNE C. BEKOFF is a professor of biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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