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- About this book
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Exploring how animal suffering is made meaningful within Western ramifications, the book investigates themes such as skepticism concerning non-human experience, cultural roots of compassion, and contemporary approaches to animal ethics. At its center is the pivotal question: What is the moral significance of animal suffering?
- About the authors
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ELISA AALTOLA is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Eastern Finland. She has been researching the theoretical ramifications behind, and practical implications of, the moral status of non-human animals for a number of years and has previously published two Finnish books on animal ethics.
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-4
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Animal Suffering: The Practice
Pages 5-48
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Knowing Suffering
Pages 49-67
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History of Caring
Pages 68-96
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Morality and Non-Human Suffering: Analytical Animal Ethics
Pages 97-145
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Animal Suffering: Philosophy and Culture
- Authors
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- E. Aaltola
- Series Title
- The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
- Copyright
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-27182-2
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137271822
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-28391-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-32912-0
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 247
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