Animals In Human Society: Amazing Creatures Who Share Our Planet

by Daniel Moorehead (Editor)

Overview

Including the work of 12 authors from institutions such as Colorado State University, Frostburg State University, Michigan State University, Salisbury University, Texas Woman’s University, University of Birmingham, University of California; Irvine, University of California; Merced, and William Jessup University, Rocklin; California, the collection of essays explores the broad range of animals who share our planet and attempts to recognize our responsibility as humans to take their interests seriously.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761866763
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	11/03/2015
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	218
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Editor Dr. Daniel Moorehead is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Frostburg State University. He was recently awarded the Dean’s Merit Award for Professional Achievement in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Dr. Moorehead’s course “Animals in Human Society” was nominated for the 2015 Award for Outstanding Course on Animals & Society “The Clifton Bryant Animals & Society Course Award.” He earned his doctorate degree from West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Chapter 1: Ideology, Subjectivity and Mind in Animal Models and Human Infant Research
Jessica Bell

Chapter 2: Institutionalizing Animal “Subject” Protection in Research
Erin M. Evans

Chapter 3: Considering the Emotional Support Animal: The “Pharmaceuticalization” of Companion Animals
Andrea Laurent-Simpson

Chapter 4: Human Supremacy, Post-Speciesist Ideology, and the Case for Anti-Colonialist Veganism
Corey Wrenn

Chapter 5: Anthropocentrism and the Issues Facing Nonhuman Animals
Andrew Woodhall

Chapter 6: Sea Otter Aesthetics in Popular Culture
Richard Ravalli

Chapter 7: Media Representations of Animals in Urban Canada
Linda Kalof, Cameron Thomas Whitley, & Jessica Bell

Chapter 8: Rationalizing Natural Horsemanship: Bridging the Interspecies (and Subcultural) Divide through the Language of Equus*
Shawn McEntee

Chapter 9: “Something to See Here” Looking at Road-killing and Road-killed Animals
Stephen Vrla

Chapter 10: Animals and the Law: Maintenance of the Status Quo
Stuart M. Collis

Appendix
References
About the Contributors