Animal Studies and Bioethics List

Bioethics and Animal Studies – Greg Goodale

            In contemporary legal, medical, philosophical, and public forums, bioethics occupies a central position with social groups debating issues concerning life and health as well as the technological and medical interventions into both: genetic manipulation, research procedures, xenotransplantation, regulation of organ markets, and “human enhancement” (see John Harris) to name a few. In Bioethics in the Age of New Media, Joanna Zylinska defines bioethics as an "ethics of life" where "life names both the physical, material existence of singular organisms (what the Greeks called zoe) and their political organization into populations (bios)" (xiii). Traditional bioethics has been focused on zoe, with an explicit exclusion of bios; however, whenever we face singular decisions regarding individual beings, their lives and health, we are already situated in and drawing on a broader political context (xiii).

Bioethics holds particular relevance to the field of animal studies because what is at stake in the varying definitions of “animal,” understandings of animal subjectivity, and arguments for how law relates to animals is not simply a question of moral significance, but a broader understanding of how biopolitics operates in the modern era. For in biopolitics, the animality of the human and the humanity of the animal becomes a central problem – perhaps the central problem – to be produced, controlled, or regulated for politics. Broadly construed, this list seeks to trace the arguments surrounding the moral standing of animals and how these debates are structured in contemporary activist, philosophical, political, and medical forums.

In particular, I’m interested in reading the list with the following questions in mind:

·         How are animals represented in the discourses? Do experts and activists rely on numerical identity or narrative identity, and which proves more critical in swaying conversation?

·         What are the boundaries of what counts as animal (as opposed to insect, bacteria, zygote, etc.)?

·         How can and do different ethical frameworks (i.e. virtue, de-ontological, and utilitarian) become embodied in practice? At what level of engagement (i.e. law, medical procedure, personal practice)?

·         How has the animal rights/welfare movements developed historically? What strategies of protest and activism have they deployed?

·         How have the histories of these movements described the medical, economic, and political obstacles faced?

List:

Adams, Carol J. and Josephine Donovan, eds. Animals & Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations. Durham: Duke UP, 1995. Print.

Animal Experimentation: The Moral Issues. Edited by Robert M. Baird and Stuart E. Rosenbaum. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1991. Print.

Animal Rights and Human Obligations. Edited by Tom Regan and Peter Singer. 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1989. Print.

Benton, Ted. Natural Relations: Ecology, Animal Rights and Social Justice. London: Verson, 1993. Print.

Budiansky, Stephen. The Covenant of the Wild: Why Animals Choose Domestication. New York: William Morrow, 1992. Print.

Calarco, Matthew. Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida. New York, NY: Columbia UP, 2008. Print.

Carruthers, Peter. The Animals Issue: Moral Theory in Practice. New York: Cambridge UP, 1992. Print.

Cavalieri, Paola and Peter Singer. The Great Ape Project. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1993. Print.

Cavalieri, Paola, ed. Nonhuman Personhood (Special Issue). Etica & Animali 9 (1998). Print.

Clarke, Stephen R. L. Animals and Their Moral Standing. New York: Routledge, 1997. Print.

Cooper, Melinda. Life as Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era. University of Washington Press, 2008. Print.

Cowan, Tyler. “Market Failure for the Treatment of Animals.” Society 43.2 (Jan/Feb 2006): 39-44. Print.

Davis, Diane. “Greetings: On Levinas and the Wagging Tail.” JAC 29.3 (2009): 595-631. Print.

DeGrazia, David. Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life and Moral Status.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996. Print.

---. Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002. Print.

Derrida, Jacques. The Beast and The Sovereign, V. I. Chicago: Chicago UP, 2011. Print.

---. The Beast and the Sovereign, V. II Chicago: Chicago UP, 2011. Print.

---. The Animal that Therefore I Am. Fordham UP, 2008. Print.

Donovan, Josephine and Carol J. Adams, eds. Beyond Animal Rights: A Feminist Caring Ethic for the Treatment of Animals. New York: Continuum, 1996. Print.

---. The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics: A Reader. New York: Columbia UP, 2007. Print.

Diprose, Rosalyn. Corporeal Generosity: On Giving with Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas. Albany: SUNY Press, 2002. Print.

The Experimental Animal in Biomedical Research; Volume 1: A Survey of Scientific and Ethical Issues for Investigators. Edited by Bernard E. Rollin and Lynne M. Kessel. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1990. Print.

Favre, David S. and Murray Loring. Animal Law. New York: Praeger, 1983. Print.

Finsen, Lawrence and Susan Finsen. The Animal Rights Movement in America: From Compassion to Respect. New York: Twayne, 1994. Print.

Fox, Michael Allen. The Case for Animal Experimentation: An Evolutionary and Ethical Perspective. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. Print.

Francione, Gary L. Animals, Property, and the Law. Philadelphia, PA: Temple UP, 1995. Print.

---. The Animal Rights Debate: Abolition or Regulation. New York: Columbia UP, 2010. Print.

---. Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog? Philadephlia, PA: Temple UP, 2000. Print.

---. Rain Without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1996. Print.

Gluck, John P., Tony DiPasquale, and Barbara F. Orlans, eds. Applied Ethics in Animal Research: Philosophy, Regulation, and Laboratory Applications. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue UP, 2001. Print.

Goodale, Greg, and Jason Edward Black (Eds.). Arguments About Animal Ethics. Lexington Books, 2010. Print.

Guillermo, Kathy S. Monkey Business: The Disturbing Case That Launched the American Animal Rights Movement. Washington, DC: National Book Press, 1993. Print.

Hall, Lee and Anthony Jon Waters. “From Property to Person: The Case of Evelyn Hart.” 11 Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal 1 (2000). Print.

Haraway, Donna J. When Species Meet. Minneapolis, MN: U of Minnesota P, 2008. Print.

Hawhee, Debra. “Kenneth Burke’s Jungle Book.” Minnesota Review 73-74 (2009/2010): 171-182. Print.

Helmers, Marguerite. “Hybridity, Ethos, and Visual Representations of Smokey Bear.” JAC 31.1-2 (2011): 45-69. Print.

In Defense of Animals. Edited by Peter Singer. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1985. Print.

JAC: Journal of Advanced Composition Special Issue on Animals. 30.3-4 (2010). Print.

Jasper, James M. and Nelkin, Dorothy. The Animal Rights Crusade: The Growth of A Moral Protest. New York: Free Press/Macmillan, 1992. Print.

Jonsen, Albert R. The Birth of Bioethics. New York and Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998. Print.

Levinas, Emmanuel. Otherwise than Being: Or Beyond Essence. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1998. Print.

---. Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1969. Print.

---. “The Name of a Dog, or Natural Rights.” In Difficult Freedom: Essays on Judaism. London: The Athlone Press, 1990. Print.

Lewiecki-Wilson, Cynthia. “Ableist Rhetorics, Nevertheless: Disability and Animal Rights in the Work of Peter Singer and Martha Nussbaum.” JAC 31.1-2 (2011): 71-101. Print.

Lives in the Balance: The Ethics of Using Animals in Biomedical Research. Edited by Jane A. Smith and Kenneth M. Boyd. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print.

Mason, Jim. An Unnatural Order: Uncovering the Roots of Our Domination of Nature and Each Other. New York: Lantern Books, 2005. Print.

Metzger, David D. “Bobby Who? (Response to Diane David).” JAC  31.1-2 (2011): 273-283. Print.

Michael, Mike and Lynda Birke. “Accounting for Animal Experiments: Identity and Disreputable ‘Others.’”Science, Technology, and Human Values 19.2 (1995): 189-204. Print.

Midgley, Mary. Animals and Why They Matter. Atlanta, GA: U of Georgia P, 1983. Print.

Nibert, David. Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002. Print.

Noske, Barbara. Beyond Boundaries: Humans and Animals. Buffalo: Black Rose Books, 1997. Print.

Nussbaum, Martha C. “Animal Rights: The Need for a Theoretical Basis.” 114 Harvard Law Review 1506 (2001). Print.

Olson, Kathryn M. and G. Thomas Goodnight. “Entanglements of Consumption, Cruelty, Privacy, and Fashion: The Social Controversy Over Fur.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 80.3 (1994): 249-276. Print.

Paton, William. Man & Mouse: Animals in Medical Research. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Print.

Rachels, James. Created From Animals: The Moral Implications of Darwinism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Print.

Regan, Tom. Animal Sacrifices: Religious Perspectives on the Use of Animals in Science. Philadelphia, PA: Temple UP, 1986. Print.

Regan, Tom. The Case for Animal Rights. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. Print.

Rifkin, Jeremy. Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture. New York: Dutton, 1992. Print.

Rollin, Bernard E. Animal Rights and Human Morality. New York: Prometheus Books, 1992. Print.

Rose, Nikolas. The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006. Print.

Ryder, Richard D. Animal Revolution: Changing Attitudes Toward Speciesism. New York: Basil Blackwell Ltd., 2000. Print.

Sapontzis, Steve F. Morals, Reasons and Animals. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987. Print.

Singer, Peter. Animal Liberation. 2nd ed. New York: Random House, 1990. Print.

Sorabji, Richard. Animal Minds and Human Morals: The Origins of the Western Debate. Ithica: Cornell UP,  1993. Print.

Steiner, Gary. Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents. Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg Press, 2010. Print.

Stone, Christopher D. “Should Trees Have Standing? –Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects.” 45 California Law Review 450 (1972). Print.

Sunnstein, Cass and Martha Nussbaum, eds. Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004. Print.

Wise, Stephen. Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2002. Print.

Wise, Stephen. Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals.Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing,  2000. Print.

Wolfe, Cary. What is Posthumanism? Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2010. Print.

Wolfe, Cary. Animal Rights: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory. Minneapolis, MN: U of Minneapolis P, 2003. Print.

Wood, Winifred J. “Bunnies for Pets or Meat: The Slaughterhouse as Cinematic Metaphor.” JAC  31.1-2 (2011): 11-44. Print.

Zylinska, Joanna.  Bioethics in the Age of New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. Print.