Rattling The Cage: Toward Legal Rights For Animals: Breaking the Barriers to Legal Rights for Non-human Animals - Hardcover

Wise, Steven

 
9780738200651: Rattling The Cage: Toward Legal Rights For Animals: Breaking the Barriers to Legal Rights for Non-human Animals
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0738200654 ISBN 13: 9780738200651
Verlag: Basic Books, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

While the popular animal rights movement gains ever-increasing momentum, in the courts the dark ages prevail. The evolution of law that has brought fundamental rights to the most defenseless humans has yet to begin for other species. A human lost in a permanent vegetative state enjoys a large array of legal rights. But a chimpanzee—a creature who can communicate with language, count, understand the minds of others, feel a variety of emotions, live in a complex culture, and make and use tools—has no rights at all.Steven Wise, who has worked and communicated with the world's most prominent primatologists, demonstrates that, based on the latest scientific findings, the cognitive, emotional, and social capacities of at least chimps and bonobos entitle them to freedom from imprisonment and abuse. His path-breaking, witty, and impeccably researched book has everything needed to convince judges, scientists, lawyers, and the millions of others who simply care about animals of the injustice of denying them basic legal rights.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Steven M. Wise, J.D. teaches "Animal Rights Law" at the Harvard Law School, Vermont Law School, John Marshall Law School, and in the Masters Program in Animals and Public Policy at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine.

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Verlag
Basic Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0738200654
ISBN 13 
9780738200651
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
384
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