Rattling the cage : toward legal rights for animals
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Rattling the cage : toward legal rights for animals
(A Merloyd Lawrence book)
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, c2000
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- : [pbk.]
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-337) and index
hbk. ed.: ISBN from back cover, XISBN from t.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Rattling the Cage explains how the failure to recognize the basic legal rights of chimpanzees and bonobos in light of modern scientific findings creates a glaring contradiction in our law. In this witty, moving, persuasive, and impeccably researched argument, Wise demonstrates that the cognitive, emotional, and social capacities of these apes entitle them to freedom from imprisonment and abuse.
Table of Contents
* The Problem with Being a Thing * Trapped in a Universe That No Longer Exists * The Legal Thinghood of Nonhuman Animals * Border Crossing * What Are Legal Rights? * Liberty and Equality * Consciousness, Taxonomy and Minds * Seasons of the Mind * Chimpanzee and Bonono minds * Bending Toward Justice * Epilogue: Other Cafes, Other Peaks
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