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Overview
In this book, Keekok Lee asks the question, 'what is an animal, and how does our treatment of it within captivity affect its status as a being ?' This ontological treatment marks the first such approach in looking at animals in captivity. Engaging with the moral questions of zoo-keeping (is it morally justified to keep a wild animal in captivity?) as well as the ontological (what is it that we conserve in zoos after all? A wild animal or its shadow?), Lee develops her own original hypothesis, centred around the concept of 'immuration' - defining this in contrast to domestication - and thereby provides a unique addition to the growing body of work on animal ethics.
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- ISBN-13: 9781403986245
- ISBN-10: 140398624X
- Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- Publish Date: November 2005
- Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.85 pounds
- Page Count: 174
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