Animal suffering : philosophy and culture /

"Animal Suffering: Philosophy and Culture explores how animal suffering is made meaningful within Western ramifications. It is often argued that today's culture is ambivalent in its attitudes toward non-human animals: on the one hand, many speak of the importance of 'animal welfare�...

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Main Author: Aaltola, Elisa, 1976- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, ♭2012.
Series:Palgrave Macmillan animal ethics series.
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505 0 |a Animal Suffering: The Practice -- Knowing Suffering -- History of Caring -- Morality and Non-Human Suffering: Analytical Animal Ethics -- Morality and Animal Suffering: Continental Investigations -- Emotion, Empathy, and Intersubjectivity -- Action Against Suffering. 
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