Cultural Dimensions of Well-Being (eBook)

Therapy Animals as Healers

Clementine K. Fujimura, Simone Nommensen (Autoren)

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2017
132 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-4128-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Clementine K. Fujimura and Simone Nommensen discuss the ethical treatment of animals and provide an overview of current and past uses of animals to enhance human well-being in Germany, the United States, Japan, and Russia.

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This book presents a cultural history of human-animal relations in Germany, Japan, Russia and the United States, with a focus on the uses of animals for comfort, healing and in developing a sense of well-being. Fujimura and Nommensen discuss the contexts in which the culture of wellbeing has developed and incorporated alternative therapies with animals. The authors turn to qualitative research conducted over a period of two years in veterinary clinics, hospices, reading programs, search and rescue organizations as well as an extensive review of existing literature on cultural studies of human-animal relations to inform their analysis of complex ways in which humans and animals interact. The extent to which animals are accepted either as members of society or, in contrast, as mere material possessions poses a cultural contradiction leading to questions of the ethical treatment of animals.

Autor

Clementine K. Fujimura is professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures at the United States Naval Academy.Simone Nommensen is a veterinarian.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Animals as Therapists: How We Discovered Them and What They DoChapter 2: Cultural Foundations of Human-Animal RelationsChapter 3: Well-Being through Communication with and about Our PetsChapter 4: Mutual Benefits through Human-Animal Contact and Training: What Science and Personal Narratives TellChapter 5: The Animal’s Perspective

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.11.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: animal therapy • Animal welfare • anthrozoology • companion animals • Cultural Anthropology • Human-animal communication • Human-Canine Bond • Nonhuman Personhood • well-being • Zoology
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-4128-3 / 1498541283
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-4128-2 / 9781498541282