02585nam 2200517 450 991015862090332120230810001636.01-943156-20-41-943156-19-0(CKB)3710000001008218(MiAaPQ)EBC4775443(MiAaPQ)EBC6955029(Au-PeEL)EBL6955029(EXLCZ)99371000000100821820170117h20172017 uy 1engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierCages /Sylvia TortiTucson, Arizona :Schaffner Press,2017.©20171 online resource (300 pages)1-943156-18-2 "CAGES is a haunting and revealing novel that concerns the ethics and motives of scientific inquiry in which two neurologists are engaged in divergent quests: one to locate the source of memory and the other to study speech patterns in humans by analyzing and manipulating bird vocalization. Both men use experiments on live songbirds in a laboratory on a university campus, and both become romantically intertwined with a woman lab assistant who takes issue with their methods, and argues for the "agency" of all living things. Overshadowing this trio are significant figures from their individual pasts--a distant mother, a former girlfriend, a best friend and ornithological expert who dies tragically while conducting field research in the Amazon, and a mentor turned lover and nemesis. This is a subtly layered novel rich in natural description and sense of place that grapples with serious philosophical and moral themes, peopled by characters who must confront the emotional truths in their lives in order to be released from their own, individual cages"--Provided by publisher.Animal welfareMoral and ethical aspectsFictionTriangles (Interpersonal relations)FictionSelf-actualization (Psychology)FictionSelf-realizationFictionScientistsFictionAnimal welfareMoral and ethical aspectsTriangles (Interpersonal relations)Self-actualization (Psychology)Self-realizationScientists813/.6FIC019000FIC000000bisacshTorti Sylvia1968-1221415MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910158620903321Cages2832633UNINA