The animal ethics reader

'The Animal Ethics Reader' is an acclaimed anthology containing both classic and contemporary readings, making it ideal for anyone coming to the subject for the first time. It provides a thorough introduction to the central topics, controversies and ethical dilemmas surrounding the treatment of animals, covering a wide range of contemporary issues, such as animal activism, genetic engineering, and environmental ethics.

General introduction : animal ethics, a sketch of how it developed and where it is now -- pt. I. Theories of animal ethics -- 1. The case for animal rights / Tom Regan -- 2. Reply to Tom Regan / Carl Cohen -- 3. Are hum rights human? / Paola Cavalieri -- 4. Practical ethics / Peter Singer -- 5. Feminism and the treatment of animals : from care to dialogue / Josephine Donovan -- 6. Rights, interests, desires and beliefs / R.G. Frey -- 7. Universal basic rights for animals / Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka -- pt. II. Animal capacities : pain, emotion, consciousness -- Issues/methods of study -- 8. An integrative and functional framework for the study of animal emotion and mood / Michael Mendl, Oliver H.P. Burman, and Elizabeth S. Paul -- 9. Reflections / Barbara Smuts -- Anthropomorphism -- 10. Anthropomorphism and cross-species modeling / Sandra D. Mitchell -- 11. Thinking without words : an overview for animal ethics / Jose Luis Bermúdeź -- Consciousness, emotion, and suffering -- 12. Animal pain / Bernard E. Rollin -- 13. A neuropsychological and evolutionary approach to animal consciousness and animal suffering / Bob Bermond -- 14. Animal pain / Colin Allen -- 15. Animal conscio…