Jenny Gray

Zoo Ethics

The Challenges of Compassionate Conservation

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Produktbeschreibung

Zoo Ethics examines the workings of modern zoos and considers the core ethical challenges faced by people who choose to hold and display animals in zoos, aquariums, or sanctuaries. Jenny Gray asserts the value of animal life and assesses the impacts of modern zoos, including the costs to animals in terms of welfare and the loss of liberty. Gray...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 688g
• ISBN-13: 9781501714429
• ISBN-10: 1501714422
• Artikelnr.: 48095609

Autorenporträt

Jenny Gray. foreword by Joel Sartore

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Photo Ark
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction - of beetles, people and zoos
Terminology
1. Introduction to applied ethics and zoos
2. The modern zoo
3. The moral disquiet with zoos
4. Animal welfare
5. Animal rights beyond welfare
6. Consequentialism
7. Virtue theory
8. Environmental ethics
9. Conclusion
Wicked problems
Further reading
Index