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People -- Marine Mammal Interactions
Books | Contributor(s): Andrew Butterworth (editor), Mark P. Simmonds (editor)
Our relationships with marine mammals are complex. We have used them as resources, and in some places this remains the case; viewed them as competitors and culled them (again ongoing in some localities); been so captivated and intrigued by them that we have taken them into captivity for our...
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Dogs & Society: Anglo-American Sociological Perspectives (1865-1934)
Books | Contributor(s): Michael R. Hill, Mary Jo Deegan
HUMANS AND DOGS have a long, wonderful and sometimes problematic association. At a personal level, dogs have been integral to our lives, and our parents’ lives, for as long as the two of us can remember. As sociologists, we also recognize that dogs are important at the macro level. Here,...
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Animals and the shaping of modern medicine: One health and its histories
Books | Contributor(s): Abigail Woods, Michael Bresalier, Angela Cassidy, Rachel Mason Dentinger
Part of the Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History book series (MBSMH)
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Books | Contributor(s): Patrick Mulligan
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Animal Assisted Play Therapy
Books | Contributor(s): Risë VanFleet, Tracie Faa-Thompson
Animal Assisted Play Therapy™ is the culmination of the authors' combined 75 years of experience working with animals as a part of their therapeutic practice. Professional practitioners, as well as the paraprofessionals who work in tandem with them, will find this book of enormous...
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Until Tuesday: a wounded warrior and the golden retriever who saved him
Books | Contributor(s): Luis Carlos Montalván, Bret Witter
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The ethology of domestic animals: an introductory text
Books | Contributor(s): Jensen, P.
This third edition book with 19 chapters on domestic animal ethology is divided into two parts: Part A contains the basic elements of animal behaviour (chapter I, the study of animal behaviour and its application; chapter II, behaviour genetics, evolution and domestication; chapter III,...
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Foucault and animals
Books | Contributor(s): Chrulew, M., Wadiwel, D. J.
Foucault and Animals is the first collection of its kind to explore the relevance of Michel Foucault's thought for the question of the animal. Chrulew and Wadiwel bring together essays from emerging and established scholars that illuminate the place of animals and animality within Foucault's...
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(INTRODUCTION) Leaders of the Pack: Women and the Future of Veterinary Medicine
Books | Contributor(s): Julie Kumble, Donald F. Smith
From dog dentist to dean, the image of a veterinary leader is different for all of us. I might picture a laboratory pathologist deep into her research while you imagine a board-certified equine surgeon who also directs her multi-doctor practice like NASA ground control. Someone else envisions a...
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Wild Neighbors : The Humane Approach to Living with Wildlife
Books | Contributor(s): John Hadidian
Wild Neighbors provides practical, humane, and effective advice on how to share living space with 35 of the most common species, from alligators to woodpeckers, found in the lower 48 states. Advice focuses on how to: properly and accurately define a wildlife problem; determine what type of animal...
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Investigating human/animal relations in science, culture and work
Books | Contributor(s): Tora Holmberg
How can we make sense of the ambiguous and historically shifting characteristics of human/animal relations? How can these relations be analysed in terms of power and hierarchies intersecting with gender, race, class and nationality? This collection of essays, derived from a Nordic workshop...
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Exploring the animal turn: Human-animal relations in science, society and culture
Books | Contributor(s): Erika Andersson Cederholm, Amelie Björck, Kristina Jennbert, Ann-Sofie Lönngren
Animals' omnipresence in human society makes them both close to and ye tremarkably distant from humans. Human and animal lives have always been entangled, but the way we see and practice the relationships between humans and animals - as close, intertwined, or clearly separate - varies from...
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Carver's repository, forge and horse infirmary
Books | Contributor(s): James Carver
Veterinary science: being an address to the gentlemen, farmers and graziers of Long Island, shewing in a brief view the importance of introducing this branch of domestic science, with a view of ameliorating the diseases of that noble animal the horse
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Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada
Books | Contributor(s): Joanna Dean, Darcy Ingram, Christabelle Sethna
Animal Metropolis brings a Canadian perspective to the growing field of animal history, ranging across species and cities, from the beavers who engineered Stanley Park to the carthorses who shaped the city of Montreal. Some essays consider animals as spectacle: orca captivity in Vancouver, polar...
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The objectification of animals
Books | Contributor(s): Felix Mariano Vallejos
Motivated by the obvious naturalization of the mistreatment of nonhuman species, it manifests in everyday areas such as food, clothing, sport and entertainment, the present work aims to address the relationship between man and animals, starting with the following question: Why do we objectify...
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Practical veterinary forensics
Books | Contributor(s): Bailey, D.
The book serves as a reference for the reader to appreciate the current workload of a forensic vet and to provide an insight into the scale and complexity of the specialism that is veterinary forensics. Topics discussed are: introduction to veterinary forensics; forensic philosophy; law and...
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International Society for Anthrozoology (ISAZ) 2016. Exploring human-animal interactions: a multidisciplinary approach from behavioral and social sciences, Barcelona, Spain, 7-10 July 2016. Proceedings
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This work contains abstracts of 61 conference papers on the regulatory, behavioural and welfare aspects of human-animal interactions.
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Companion animal economics: the economic impact of companion animals in the UK. Research report
Books | Contributor(s): Hall, S., Dolling, L., Bristow, K., Fuller, T., Mills, D.
The aim of this report is to raise awareness of the importance of research concerning the economic impact of companion animals on society. This report was inspired by the seminal Council for Science and Society (CSS) report Companion Animals in Society (1988), and updates and extends its...
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Treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder in military and veteran populations: initial assessment
Books | Contributor(s): Institute of Medicine Committee on the Assessment of Ongoing Efforts in the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress, Disorder
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Animal-assisted psychotherapy and equine-facilitated psychotherapy
Books | Contributor(s): Brooks, Susan M.
