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Zoos and Animal Rights : the Ethics of Keeping Animals by Bostock, Stephen St. C., 1940- is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Zoos and Animal Rights : the Ethics of Keeping Animals about?

1 online resource (xi, 227 pages) A controversial and timely book which explores the long history of zoos as well as the diverse ethica l and technical issues involved. Anyone concerned with humanity's relationship with other animals will find this an inspiring and rewarding book Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-213) and indexes 4,500 years of zoos and animal keeping -- Egypt -- Mesopotamia -- Greece -- Rome -- Ancient China -- Medieval Europe -- Medieval China -- British deerparks -- Late middle ages and renaissance times -- Mexico -- European zoos 1500-1800 -- Menageries -- London Zoo in the nineteenth century -- Carl Hagenbeck -- Woburn -- Other twentieth-century developments -- Animals and their rights -- Animals themselves -- Animal rights -- Animals' right to freedom -- Wildness, cruelty and domination -- Wildness -- Do zoos keep wild animals? -- Cruelty -- Domination -- Wild living versus zoo living -- Length of life and violent death -- Are zoo animals healthier than wild animals? -- Food, pleasure and purpose -- Evolution and adaptation -- Judging well-being -- Health -- Breeding -- Natural behaviour -- Abnormal behaviour -- Direct indications -- Theoretical

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Author

Bostock, Stephen St. C., 1940-

Publisher

London ; New York : Routledge

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780415050586

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Science, Social Science