Zoos and animal rights : the ethics of keeping animals /: the ethics of keeping animals. ([date of publication not identified])
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Zoos and animal rights : the ethics of keeping animals /: the ethics of keeping animals. ([date of publication not identified])
- Main Title:
- Zoos and animal rights : the ethics of keeping animals
- Further Information:
- Note: Stephen St. C. Bostock.
- Authors:
- Bostock, Stephen St. C, 1940-
- Contents:
- 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 assessment -- Keeping and display of animals -- Six ways of keeping animals -- Aesthetics and purpose of zoo design -- Aesthetic of the naturalistic -- Is it captivity? (cont) Why conservation is a moral matter -- Caring for objects -- Different ways of conserving -- Vandalism -- Animals as natural works of art -- Animals as animals -- Why animals merit double respect -- Zoos and conservation -- Conservational captive breeding -- Breeding technology -- Culling -- Reintroduction -- Species selection, valuing and finance -- Supplementary conservational roles -- Science in zoos -- Taxonomy -- General observation and investigation --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 assessment -- Keeping and display of animals -- Six ways of keeping animals -- Aesthetics and purpose of zoo design -- Aesthetic of the naturalistic -- Is it captivity? (cont) Why conservation is a moral matter -- Caring for objects -- Different ways of conserving -- Vandalism -- Animals as natural works of art -- Animals as animals -- Why animals merit double respect -- Zoos and conservation -- Conservational captive breeding -- Breeding technology -- Culling -- Reintroduction -- Species selection, valuing and finance -- Supplementary conservational roles -- Science in zoos -- Taxonomy -- General observation and investigation -- Veterinary study -- Genetics -- Behaviour -- Source for anatomical material -- Milieu for scientific activities -- On zoos not being scientific -- Usefulness of science in zoos -- Education in zoos -- Why keep real animals? -- Involvement with animals -- On zoological and other gardens -- On real plants and animals -- Communities or prisons? -- Taking animals from the wild. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- London New York : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- [date of publication not identified]
- Copyright Date:
- 1993
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 179.3
Zoo animals
Zoos -- Philosophy
Animal welfare
Animal rights
Animaux de jardin zoologique
Jardins zoologiques -- Philosophie
Animaux -- Protection
Animaux -- Droits
NATURE -- Animal Rights
Animal rights
Animal welfare
Zoo animals
Zoos -- Philosophy
Dierentuinen
Rechten van het dier
Ethiek
Animal Rights
Animal Welfare
Animals, Zoo
Ethics
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Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781134942442
1134942443 - Related ISBNs:
- 0203408810
0203717058
041505057X
9780415050579
0415050588
9780415050586 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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