Regarding Animals

How is it that people can express great affection for animals as sentient creatures and yet turn a blind eye to the most callous behavior toward them? Animals are sold as expensive commodities, used as food and clothing, killed as vermin, and hunted for sport. They are also treated as members of the family, used as the cause celebre of social movements, and make the subject of art, film, and poetry. Such contradictions compel the authors to explore the social worlds of veterinary clinics, animal shelters, primate labs, and others through active participation.

Regarding Animals chronicles the day-to-day experiences of people who work in these places and reveals the complex strategies used to cope with the emotional traumas of the job. Combining sociological analysis with personal experience, the authors offer fascinating and sometimes heartbreaking insights into the history and practice of how we as human beings construct animals and how we ultimately construct ourselves in relation to them.

• Author
• Arnold Arluke, Clinton R. Sanders

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 218

• Publisher
• Temple University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781566394413

• Genres
• animals, sociology

• Release date
• 1996