People, property, or pets? /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Hauser, Marc D., Cushman, Fiery, Kamen, Matthew
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, [2006]
Series:	New directions in the human-animal bond.
Subjects:	Animals > Law and legislation > United States. Animal rights > United States. Animal Rights > legislation & jurisprudence. Animal Welfare > legislation & jurisprudence.

Table of Contents:

I. Philosophy
Cows as chairs : questioning categorical legal distinctions in a non-categorical world
The case for animals
Why the status of animals should remain as property
The case for animals as the property of humans
Animal ethics and legal status
II. Law
Consistency and rights
A legal argument against animals as property
The legal perspective on animal rights
Why should one reject the motion intending to remove animals from the status of property
Animals, property, and personhood
III. Cognitive science
Aping ethics : behavioral homologies and nonhuman rights
Cognitive beasts : the thoughts and feelings of animals
An argument from cognitive science against increasing legal rights for animals
Evolved aspects of morality determine legal rights of animals
IV. Biomedical research
A critical review of animal experimentation : moral and practical problems, alternatives and necessary changes
Why animals should own their own genes, and therefore, own themselves
Nonhuman pain and animal rights
The importance of animal testing in biomedical research
Animal welfare and biomedical research
V. Animal care
Ethics ... it's what's for dinner
Treating animals humanely : veterinary medicine's defense to the law
Veterinarians and the care against legal personhood for animals
Animals are not things