Clifford Sherry

Animal Rights

A Reference Handbook

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Produktbeschreibung

This revised edition helps readers understand and develop their own opinions on the fundamental issues, enduring controversies, and critical developments associated with animal rights. First published in 1994, Animal Rights: A Reference Handbook was widely acclaimed for its objective look at the ways in which humans treat animals. Extensively revised and updated, this new edition explores the basis for current perspectives on animal rights by addressing the relationship between humans and animals from scientific, philosophical, legal, and religious points of view. Animal Rights: A Reference Handbook, Second Edition maintains the balance and accessibility of the first edition, letting readers decide the bounds of human responsibility toward animals. It surveys a wide range of controversies surrounding the use of animals in such fields as the food industry, medical research, and the realm of entertainment, as well as the tremendous surge in scientific discoveries and technological advances that have led to new conversations on animal rights in the 21st century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9781598841916
• ISBN-10: 1598841912
• Artikelnr.: 29251367

Autorenporträt

Clifford J. Sherry is a retired senior scientist. His published works include ABC-CLIO's Endangered Species: A Reference Handbook and Animal Rights: A Reference Handbook.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Historical and Philosophical Backgrounds
What Are Humans
Anyway?
How Do We Use Animals?
Agricultural Animals
Companion Animals
Service Animals
Entertainment
Pests
What Is a Right?
Do Animals Have Rights?
Religious Viewpoint
Secular Viewpoint (Philosophical)
Secular Viewpoint (Legal)
How about Dogs?
What about Service Animals?
What of the Pests?
Key Concepts
Anthropomorphism
Speciesism
Sentience
Pain and Suffering
Pain
Background
Studying Pain
Theories of Pain
Suffering
Religious Viewpoint
Secular Viewpoint
Summary
References
2 Problems and Controversies
Agriculture
Agricultural Animal Welfare Issues
Enter the 21st Century
Science
How Do Scientists Do Science?
Testing! Testing! Who Do We Test? Why Do We Test?
Education
Animal Fighting
Dog Fighting
Cock Fighting
Bullfighting
Hunting
Fox Hunting
Coon Hunting
Entertainment
Circus
Films and Television
Rodeo
Zoos
Marine Mammal Theme Parks
Fashion
Fur
Feathers
Leather
Cetacea: Whales
Porpoises
and Dolphins
Whaling
References
3 Possible Solutions
Research
Research
Research!
Private (Nongovernmental) Solutions
Animal Welfare
Animal Rights
Science Activists
Governmental Solutions
United States
Background
Federal Regulations (Nonagricultural)
Federal Regulations (Agricultural)
United States-State and Local Regulations
England
References
4 Chronology
5 Biographies
Cleveland Amory
George Thorndike Angell
Aristotle
Bob Barker
Christiaan Neethling Barnard
Jeremy Bentham
Henry Bergh
Claude Bernard
Jean François Borel
Alexis Carrell
Joseph Sill Clark
Leland C. Clark
Frances Power Cobbe
Carl Cohen
Doris Day
Vladimir Petrovich Demikhov
Walter Elias (Walt) Disney
Robert Joseph Dole
Muriel Dowding
Michael Allen Fox
Michael Wilson Fox
Ann Cottrell Free
Robert K. Jarvik
Joseph Rudyard Kipling
John Cunningham Lilly
Warren Grant Magnuson
Frank C. Mann
Emanuel Marcus
Richard Martin
James McMillan
Mark L. Morris
Sr.
Adrian R. Morrison
Ingrid Newkirk
Charles S. Nicoll
Coles Phinizy
Thomas Howard Regan
Joseph Yale Resnick
Sharon M. Russell
Norman Shumway
Peter Singer
Christine Stevens
Frankie Trull
Thomas Tyron
Betty White
References
6 Data and Documents
Documents
Animal Welfare Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-544)
Animal Welfare Act Amendments of 1970 (Public Law 91-579)
Animal Welfare Act Amendment of 1976 (Public Law 94-279)
Food Security Act of 1985
Senate Hearing 161-4
"Improved Standards for Laboratory Animals"
House of Representatives Hearing 161-27
"Improved Standards for Laboratory Animals Act; and Enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service"
Food Security Act of 1985 (Public Law 99-198)
The 1985 Amendments Become Law
Food
Agriculture
Conservation
and Trade Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-624)
Animal Enterprise Protection Act of 1992 (Public Law 102-346)
Farm Bill
Title 10
Miscellaneous Provisions
Section D (2002)
Data
7 Directory of Organizations
Abundant Wildlife Society of North America (AWS)
Actors and Others for Animals (A&O)
Alliance for Animals (AFA)
Alliance for Contraception in Cats and Dogs (ACC&D)
American Anti-Vivisection Society (AAVS)
American Association for Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC)
American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS)
American Council on Science and Health (ACSH)
American Association of Zoo Veterinarians (AAZV)
American Cetacean Society (ACS)
American Humane Association (AHA)
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)
American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)
Animal Agriculture Alliance
Animal Behavior Management Alliance (ABMA)
Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF)
Animal Liberation Front (ALF)
Animal Rights Coalition (ARC)
Animal Rights International (ARI)
Animal Rights Mobilization (ARM)
Animal and Society Institute
The Animal Society (TAS)
Animal Transportation Association (AATA)
Animal Welfare Institute (AWI)
Animals Voice (AV)
Associated Humane Societies (AHS)
Association of Veterinarians for Animal Rights (AVAR)
Association for the Protection of Fur-Bearing Animals (Fur Bearer Defenders)
Beauty without Cruelty (BWC)
Canadian Association for Humane Trapping (CAHT)
Center for Whale Research (CWR)
Cetacean Society International (CSI)
Citizens to End Animal Suffering and Exploitation (CEASE)
Coalition for Animals and Animal Research
Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting (CASH)
Culture and Animals Foundation (CAF)
Defenders of Animals (DOA)
European Biomedical Research Association (EBRA)
European Fur Breeders Association (EFBA)
Family Farm Defenders (FFD)
Food Animal Concerns Trust (FACT)
Foundation for Biomedical Research (FBR)
Friends of Animals (FoA)
Fur Commission U.S.A. (FCUSA)
Fur Information Council of America (FICA)
Fur Free Alliance (FFA)
Fur Takers of America (FTA)
Incurably Ill for Animal Research (IIFAR)
Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources (ILAR)
Institute of Animal Technology (IAT)
International Association against Painful Experiments on Animals (IAAPEA)
International Association of Human-Animal Interaction Organizations (IAHAIO)
International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW)
International Primate Protection League (IPPL)
International Society for Animal Rights (ISAR)
International Whaling Commission (IWC)
International Wildlife Coalition-USA (IWC-USA)
Japan Whaling Association (JWA)
Jews for Animal Rights (JAR)
Justice for Animals (JFA)
Laboratory Animal Management Association (LAMA)
Laboratory Animal Science Association (LASA)
Last Chance for Animals (LCA)
Lehigh Valley Animal Rights Coalition (LVARK)
Mercy for Animals (MFA)
National Association for Biomedical Research (NAFBR)
National Centre for Replacement
Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research
National Federation of Humane Societies (NFHS)
National Pet Alliance (NPA)
New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance (NJARA)
Northwest Animal Rights Network
Ocean Conservancy
People for Animal Rights (PAR)
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
People Protecting Animals and Their Habitats (PATH)
Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS)
Primarily Primates
Inc. (PPI)
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA)
Save the Whales (STW)
Scientists Center for Animal Welfare (SCAW)
Society for Animal Protective Legislation (SAPL)
Society of Animal Welfare Administrators (SAWA)
Student Animal Rights Alliance (SARA)
Tree House Animal Foundation (THAF)
The True Nature Network (TTNN)
United Action for Animals (UAA)
United Animal Nations (UAN)
United Poultry Concerns (UPC)
U.S. Animal Health Association (USAHA)
U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance (USSA)
Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW)
Vegetarian Resource Group (VRG)
Vegan Action (VA)
Voice for Animals (VOICE)
Wild Animal Orphanage (WAO)
8 Resources
Print Resources
Alternatives to Animals
Animal Rights
Cetacea: The Whales and Dolphins
Domestication
Entertainment
Farm Animals
Fur Farming and Trapping
Horse Racing
Hunting and Fishing
Pets
Primates
Vegetarianism
Zoos and Aquaria
Government Publications
Law Compilations and Legal Sources
Congressional Hearings
Nonprint Resources
Databases
Computer Simulations
Video/DVD
Glossary
Index
About the Author