Animal rights : current debates and new directions
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Animal rights : current debates and new directions
Oxford University Press, 2004
- : cloth
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Includes bibliographies and index
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Contributors to this volume explore the legal and political issues that underlie the campaign for animal rights and the opposition to it. Ethical questions on ownership, protection against suffering and the ability of animals to make their own choices free from human control are thought-provokingly examined.
Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION: WHAT ARE ANIMAL RIGHTS?
- PART I: CURRENT DEBATES
- 1. Animal Rights, One Step at a Time
- 2. Animal Rights: Legal, Philosophical and Pragmatic Perspectives
- 3. Ethics Beyond Species and Beyond Instincts: A Reply to Richard Posner
- 4. Eating Meat and Eating People
- 5. Taking Animal Interests Seriously
- 6. Animals as Objects, or Subjects, of Rights
- 7. Drawing Lines
- 8. All Animals are Not Equal: The Interface Between Scientific Knowledge and Legislation for Animal Rights
- PART II: NEW DIRECTIONS
- 9. Foxes in the Hen House: Animals, Agribusiness and the Law
- 10. A New Property Status for Animals: Equitable Self-Ownership
- 11. Can Animals Sue?
- 12. Of Mice and Men: A Feminist Fragment on Animal Rights
- 13. Animal Rights and the Values of Nonhuman Life
- 14. "Beyond Compassion and Humanity": Justice for Non-Human Animals
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