Behaving Like Animals: Human Cruelty, Animal Suffering, and American Culture, 1900-present

What does it mean to be cruel to an animal? What does it mean for an animal to suffer? These are the questions embedded in the term "cruelty to animals," which has seemed, at first glance, a well defined term in modern America, in so far as it has been codified in anti-cruelty statutes. Cr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McGrath, Timothy Stephen
Other Authors: Cott, Nancy F.
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2013
Subjects:
Law
Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11027
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:10974708