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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Wise, Steven M. Rattling the cage. Cambridge, Mass. : Perseus Pub., ©2000 (OCoLC)607439326 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Steven M Wise |
ISBN: | 0738200654 9780738200651 0738204374 9780738204376 |
OCLC Number: | 43333970 |
Notes: | "A Merloyd Lawrence book." |
Description: | xvi, 362 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Foreword / Jane Goodall -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The problem with being a thing -- 2. Trapped in a universe that no longer exists -- 3. The legal thinghood of nonhuman animals -- 4. Border crossings -- 5. What are legal rights? -- 6. Liberty and equality -- 7. The common law -- 8. Consciousness, taxonomy, and minds -- 9. Seasons of the mind -- 10. Chimpanzee and bonobo minds -- 11. Bending toward justice -- 12. Epilogue: other cages, other peaks -- Notes -- About the author -- Index. |
Other Titles: | Toward legal rights for animals |
Responsibility: | Steven M. Wise ; foreword by Jane Goodall. |
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Abstract:
Rattling the Cage explains how the failure to recognize the basic legal rights of chimpanzees and bonobos in light of modern scientific findings creates a glaring contradiction in our law. In this witty, moving, persuasive, and impeccably researched argument, Wise demonstrates that the cognitive, emotional, and social capacities of these apes entitle them to freedom from imprisonment and abuse.
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