Pets and people : the ethics of our relationships with companion animals / edited by Christine Overall.
Overall, Christine, 1949- editor.
2017
SF411.5 .P484 2017 (Mapit)
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Title Pets and people : the ethics of our relationships with companion animals / edited by Christine Overall.
ISBN 9780190456078 (paperback)
0190456078 (paperback)
9780190456085 (hardcover)
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Copyright ©2017
Language English
Description xxv, 295 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number SF411.5 .P484 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 636.088/7
Summary This work offers 18 ground-breaking articles, written by an international group of philosophers, on companion animal ethics. It explores the ethical foundations of our relationships with pets, in particular dogs and cats, and specific moral issues, including breeding, reproduction, sterilization, cloning, adoption, feeding, training, working, sexual interactions, longevity, dying, and euthanasia.
Note This work offers 18 ground-breaking articles, written by an international group of philosophers, on companion animal ethics. It explores the ethical foundations of our relationships with pets, in particular dogs and cats, and specific moral issues, including breeding, reproduction, sterilization, cloning, adoption, feeding, training, working, sexual interactions, longevity, dying, and euthanasia.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Overall, Christine, 1949- editor.
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Companion and assistance animals: benefits, welfare safeguards, and relationships / Jean Harvey
Friendship with companion animals / Cynthia Townley
Building a meaningful social world between human and companion animals through empathy / Antonio Calcagno
Care, moral progress, and companion animals / Maurice Hamington
Two-level utilitatian analysis of relationships with pets / Gary Varner
"I don't want the responsibility": the moral implicatons of avoiding dependency relations with companion animals / Kathryn J. Norlock
Ethical behavior in animals / Bernard E. Rollin
Our whimpsy, their welfare: on the ethics of pedigree-breddings / John Rossi
Does preventing reproduction make for bad care? / Katherine Wayne
"Lassie, come home!": ethical concerns with companion animal cloning / Jennifer Parks
Reproducing companion animals / Jessica du Toit and David Benatar
For dog's sake, adopt! / Tina Rulli
Animal lovers' paradox?: on the ethics of "pet food" / Josh Milburn
Ethics of animal training / Tony Milligan
Animal assisted intervention and citizenship theory / Zipporah Weisberg
"Sex without all the politics"?: sexual ethics and human-canine relations / Cloë Taylor
Throw out the dog?: death, longevity, and companion animals / Christine Overall
Euthanasia of companion animals / Michael Cholbi.

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