| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 326 pages) |
| Summary |
"A maverick scientist who co-founded the field of anthrozoology offers a controversial, thought-provoking, and unprecedented exploration of the psychology behind the inconsistent and often paradoxical ways we think, feel, and behave towards animals"--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Why is it so hard to think straight about animals? -- Anthrozoology : the new science of human-animal interactions -- The importance of being cute : why we think what we think about creatures that don't think like us -- Pet-o-philia : why do humans (and only humans) love pets? -- Friends, foes, and fashion statements : the human-dog relationship -- "Prom queen kills first deer on sixteenth birthday" : gender and the human-animal relationship -- In the eyes of the beholder : the comparative cruelty of cockfights and Happy Meals -- Delicious, dangerous, disgusting, and dead : the human-meat relationship -- The moral status of mice : the use of animals in science -- The cats in our houses, the cows on our plates : are we all hypocrites? -- The carnivorous yahoo within ourselves : dealing with moral inconsistency. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Human-animal relationships.
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Interdisciplinary research.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Herzog, Hal. Some we love, some we hate, some we eat. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2010 9780061730863 (DLC) 2010015706 (OCoLC)526077036 |
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