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This handbook provides an in-depth examination of the practical and theoretical issues within the emerging field of animal ethics. Leading experts from around the globe offer insights into cutting edge topics as diverse as killing for food, religious slaughter, animal companions, aquariums, genetic manipulation, hunting for sport and bullfighting. Including contributions from Lisa Johnson on the themes of human dominance, Thomas White on the ethics of captivity, Mark Bernstein on the ethics of killing and Kay Peggs on the causation of suffering, this handbook offers an authoritative reference work for contemporary applied animal ethics. Progressive in approach, the authors explore the challenges that animal ethics poses both conceptually and practically to traditional understandings of human-animal relations.

Key Features:

·         Structured in four parts to examine the ethics of control, the ethics of captivity, the ethics of killing and the ethics of causing suffering

·         Interdisciplinary approach including philosophical, historical, scientific, legal, anthropological, religious, psychological and sociological perspectives

·         Focussed treatment of practical issues such as animals in farming, zoos and animal experimentation

The Palgrave Handbook of Practical Animal Ethics is an essential resource for those with an interest in the ethics of modern-day treatment of animals as well as scholars, researchers and advanced students in zoology, philosophy, anthropology, religious studies and sociology.

The Palgrave Handbook of Practical Animal Ethics

Series Editors' Preface

Acknowledgments

Editors and Contributors

 

Introduction

The Challenge of Animal Ethics

Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey

 

Section I: The Ethics of Control

1.         Introduction: The Ethics of Control

Lisa Johnson

2.         Animal Justice as Non-Domination

Valéry Giroux and Carl Saucier-Bouffard

3.         Rethinking the Ethic of Human Dominance

Grace Clement

4.         Chain of Fools

Les Mitchell

5.         Our Moral Duties to Ill and Aging Companion Animals

Faith Bjalobok

6.         Speciesism and the Ideology of Domination in the Italian Philosophical Tradition

Leonardo Caffo

7.         Bioengineering, Animal Advocacy, and the Ethics of Control

Jodey Castricano

 

Section II: The Ethics of Captivity

8.         Introduction: The Ethics of Captivity

Thomas I. White

9.         Incarceration, Liberty, and Dignity
Lori Gruen

10.       Speciesism and Zoos: Shifting the Paradigm, Maintaining the Prejudice

Elizabeth Tyson

11.       Elephants in Captivity

Catherine Doyle

12.       Whales, Dolphins and Humans: Challenges in Interspecies Ethics

Thomas I. White

13.       The Marine Mammal Captivity Issue: Time for a Paradigm Shift

Lori Marino

 

Section III: The Ethics of Killing

14.       Introduction: The Ethics of Killing

Mark H. Bernstein

15.       Religious Slaughter: Science, Law, and Ethics

Jordan Sosnowski

16.       Fishing for Trouble: The Ethics of Recreational Angling

Maximilian Padden Elder

17.       What Is Morally Wrong with Killing Animals (If This Does Not Involve Suffering)?

Carlos M. Naconecy

18.       Killing Animals-Permitted by God? The Role of Christian Ethics in (Not) Protecting the Lives of Animals

Kurt Remele

19.       Smoke and Mirrors: An Analysis of Some Important Conceptions Used to Justify Hunting

Priscilla N. Cohn

20.       Comparing the Wrongness of Killing Humans and Killing Animals

Mark H. Bernstein

 

Section IV: The Ethics of Causing Suffering

21.       Introduction: The Ethics of Causing Suffering

Kay Peggs

22.       Animal Suffering Matters

Kay Peggs

23.       Human Duties, Animal Suffering, and Animal Rights: A Legal Reevaluation

Darren Sean Calley

24.       Suffering Existence: Nonhuman Animals and Ethics

Kay Peggs and Barry Smart

25.       Suffering of Animals in Food Production: Problems and Practical Solutions

Akisha Townsend Eaton

26.       Suffering for Science and How Science Supports the End of Animal Experiments

Aysha Akhtar

27.       Bullfighting: The Legal Protection of Suffering

Lidia de Tienda Palop

28. Free-roaming Animals, Killing, and Suffering: The Case of African Elephants

Kai Horsthemke

30. The Dog that is Willing to Die: The "Ethics" of Animal Fighting

Randall Lockwood

Index