Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation

Gary L. Francione

Paper, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13951-9
$24.50 / £17.00

May, 2008
Cloth, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13950-2
$40.00 / £27.50

Foreword by Gary Steiner

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Abolition of Animal Use Versus the Regulation of Animal Treatment

Chapter 1. Animals—Property or Persons?

Chapter 2. Reflections on Animals, Property, and the Law and Rain Without Thunder

Chapter 3. Taking Sentience Seriously

Chapter 4. Equal Consideration and the Interest of Nonhuman Animals in Continued Existence: A Response to Professor Sunstein

Chapter 5. The Use of Nonhuman Animals in Biomedical Research: Necessity and Justification

Chapter 6. Ecofeminism and Animal Rights: A Review of Beyond Animal Rights: A Feminist Caring Ethic for the Treatment of Animals

Chapter 7. Comparable Harm and Equal Inherent Value: The Problem of the Dog in the Lifeboat

Reference Guide to Selected Topics

Related Subjects

• Animal Studies
• Ethics

About the Author

Gary L. Francione was the first academic to teach animal rights theory in an American law school and has lectured on the topic throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. He is Distinguished Professor of Law and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Scholar of Law and Philosophy at Rutgers University-Newark, and his books include Introduction to Animal Rights and Animals, Property, and the Law.

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