Bibliography
Considering Animals
On site July 8-18, 2012 in Washington, DC
Required Readings
- J.M. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals. ed. Amy Gutmann (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999)
- Dale Jamieson, "Against Zoos" In PETER SINGER (ed), In Defense of Animals, New York: Basil Blackwell, 1985, pp. 108-117
- Richard Reading and Brian Miller, "Attitudes and attitude change among zoo visitors"
- Michael Hutchins, "The animal rights–conservation debate: can zoos and aquariums play a role?"
- Lewis Thomas, "The Tucson Zoo" from The Medusa and the Snail
- Robert Burns, "To a Mouse"
- John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale"
- Emily Dickinson, "A Bird Came Down the Walk"
- Marianne Moore, "He Digesteth Harde Yron"
- Wallace Stevens, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
- Ranier Maria Rilke, "The Panther"
- Ted Hughes, "The Jaguar"
- The Endangered Species Act at Thirty
- Cass Sunstein, "Standing for Animals"
- Kimberly Smith, Governing Animals: Animal Welfare and the Liberal State, chs. 2 & 5
- Loren Eiseley, "The Bird and the Machine"
Recommended Readings
- For reference only: Instutional IACUC guidebook
- Neville Gregory, Physiology and Behaviour of Animal Suffering, ch. 12, "Sickness and Disease"
Recommended by Elizabeth Turner (for Tuesday, 7/10/12)
- Alexander Calder, excerpts from Animal Sketching
Recommended by Donald Moore (for Thursday, 7/12/12)
- George Rabb, "The Evolution of Zoos from Menageries to Centers of Conservation and Caring"
- Markus Gussett and Gerald Dick, "The Global Reach of Zoos and Aquariums in Visitor Numbers and Conservation Expenditures"
- Markus Gussett and Gerald Dick, "‘Building a Future for Wildlife’? Evaluating the contribution of the world zoo and aquarium community to in situ conservation"
Recommended by Tim Allen (for Friday, 7/13/12)
Recommended by Jessica Almy (for Thursday, 7/17/12)
- Kieran Suckling et al., "How the Endangered Species Act is Saving Wildlife"