Just a Dog : Understanding Animal Cruelty and Ourselves /
Psychiatrists define cruelty to animals as a psychological problem or personality disorder. Legally, animal cruelty is described by a list of behaviors. In Just a Dog, Arnold Arluke argues that our current constructs of animal cruelty are decontextualized--imposed without regard to the experience of...
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Agents: feigning authority
- Adolescents: appropriating adulthood
- Hoarders: shoring up self
- Shelter workers: finding authenticity
- Marketers: Celebrating community
- Cruelty is good to think.