Animal subjects : an ethical reader in a posthuman world / / edited by Jodey Castricano

• Pubblicazione: Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (325 pages)
• Disciplina: 179/.3
• Soggetto topico: Animal rights; Animal welfare; Animal welfare - Moral and ethical aspects; Human-animal relationships
• Altri autori: CastricanoCarla Jodey <1947->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Animal subjects in a posthuman world / Jodey Castricano -- Chicken / Donna Haraway -- Selfish genes, sociobiology and animal respect / Rod Preece -- Anatomy as speech act : Vesalius, Descartes, Rembrandt or the question of "the animal" in the early modern anatomy lesson / Dawne McCance -- A missed opportunity : humanism, anti-humanism and the animal question / Paola Cavalieri -- Thinking other-wise : cognitive science, deconstruction and the (non)speaking (non)human animal subject / Cary Wolfe -- Animals in moral space / Michael Allen Fox, Lesley McLean -- Electric sheep and the new argument from nature / Angus Taylor -- Monsters : the case of marineland / John Sorenson -- "I sympathize in their pains and pleasures" : women and animals in Mary Wollstonecraft / Barbara K. Seeber -- Animals as persons / David Sztybel -- Power and irony : one tortured cat and many twisted angles to our moral schizophrenia about animals / Lesli Bisgould -- Blame and shame? How can we reduce unproductive animal experimentation? / Anne Innis Dagg -- On animal immortality : an argument for the possibility of animal immortality in light of the history of philosophy / Johanna Tito.
• Sommario/riassunto: Although Cultural Studies has directed sustained attacks against sexism and racism, the question of the animal has lagged behind developments in broader society with regard to animal suffering in factory farming, product testing, and laboratory experimentation, as well in zoos, rodeos, circuses, and public aquariums. The contributors to Animal Subjects are scholars and writers from diverse perspectives whose work calls into question the boundaries that divide the animal kingdom from humanity, focusing on the medical, biological, cultural, philosophical, and ethical concerns between
• Titolo autorizzato: Animal subjects
• ISBN: 1-299-31314-0; 1-4356-5631-8; 1-55458-077-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826367903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cultural studies series.; Environmental humanities.