The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series Series editors: Andrew Linzey and Priscilla Cohn Associate editor: Clair Linzey In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the ethics of our treatment of animals. Philosophers have led the way, and now a range of other scholars have followed, from historians to social scientists. From being a marginal issue, animals have become an emerging issue in ethics and in multidisciplinary inquiry. This series explores the challenges that Animal Ethics poses, both conceptually and practically, to traditional understandings of human-animal relations. Specifically, the series will ● provide a range of key introductory and advanced texts that map out ethical positions on animals, ● publish pioneering work written by new, as well as accomplished, scholars, and ● produce texts from a variety of disciplines that are multidisciplinary in char- acter or have multidisciplinary relevance. Titles include Elisa Aaltola ANIMAL SUFFERING: PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURE Aysha Akhtar ANIMALS AND PUBLIC HEALTH Why Treating Animals Better Is Critical to Human Welfare Alasdair Cochrane AN INTRODUCTION TO ANIMALS AND POLITICAL THEORY Eleonora Gullone ANIMAL CRUELTY, ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, AND HUMAN AGGRESSION More than a Link Alastair Harden ANIMALS IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD Ethical Perspectives from Greek and Roman Texts Lisa Johnson POWER, KNOWLEDGE, ANIMALS Andrew Knight THE COSTS AND BENEFITS OF ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS Randy Malamud AN INTRODUCTION TO ANIMALS IN VISUAL CULTURE Ryan Patrick McLaughlin CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY AND THE STATUS OF ANIMALS The Dominant Tradition and Its Alternatives Claire Molloy POPULAR MEDIA AND ANIMALS Siobhan O’Sullivan ANIMALS, EQUALITY AND DEMOCRACY Kay Peggs AN INTRODUCTION TO ANIMALS AND SOCIOLOGY Thomas Ryan ANIMALS AND SOCIAL WORK A Moral Introduction Thomas Ryan ( editor ) ANIMALS IN SOCIAL WORK: Why and How They Matter Joan Schaffner AN INTRODUCTION TO ANIMALS AND THE LAW Tatjana Višak KILLING HAPPY ANIMALS Explorations in Utilitarian Ethics Forthcoming titles: Mark Bernstein HUMAN ANIMAL RELATIONS The Obligation to Care Deborah Cao ANIMALS IN CHINESE CULTURE Philosophy, Law and Ethics Anna S. King ANIMAL THEOLOGY AND ETHICS IN INDIAN RELIGIONS Steve McMullen ANIMALS AND ECONOMICS Sabrina Tonutti ON NOT EATING MEAT Marcel Wissenburg and David Schlosberg ( editors ) POLITICAL ANIMALS AND ANIMAL POLITICS The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series Series Standing Order ISBN 978–0–230–57686–5 Hardback 978–0–230–57687–2 Paperback ( outside North America only ) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of diffi culty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and one of the ISBNs quoted above. 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Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. To Blanca, with love To Thomas-Liam & Fiona, Jude & Paige, Immogen & Clayton, Mirabehn & Samantha, Nate, Ravelle & Indie , loves of my life To Gran & Cha, with deepest gratitude To Tess, Simone, Lucy Jayke & Clarabelle, for all those walks and companionship As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love thee. — Henry David Thoreau (1980, p. 285)1 1 Thoreau, H. D. (1980). A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Princeton: Princeton University Press. When we open our eyes to see the reality of another creature, and so learn to respect its being, that other creature may as easily be non- human. Those who would live virtuously, tradition tells us, must seek to allow each creature its own place, and to appreciate the beauty of the whole. — Stephen R.L. Clark (1994, p. 30) 1 Let me enjoy the earth no less Because the all-enacting Might That fashioned forth it loveliness Had other aims than my delight. — Thomas Hardy (1924, p. 91) 2 1 Clark, S. R. L. (1994). Modern errors, ancient virtues. In A. Dyson & J. Harris (eds), Ethics and Biotechnology (pp. 13 – 32). London: Routledge. 2 Hardy, T. (1924). Time’s Laughing Stocks . London: Macmillan. Contents Series Editors’ Preface ix Acknowledgements xi Notes on Contributors xii Introduction xv Part I The Why : Philosophical and Theoretical Explorations 1 Deep Ecological ‘Insectification’: Integrating Small Friends with Social Work 3 Fred H. Besthorn 2 The Meaning of Animals in Women’s Lives: The Importance of the “‘Domestic”’ Realm to Social Work 18 Jan Fook 3 Integrative Health Thinking and the One Health Concept: Is Social Work All for ‘One’ or ‘One’ for All? 32 Cassandra Hanrahan 4 My Dog Is My Home: Increasing Awareness of Inter-Species Homelessness in Theory and Practice 48 Christine H. Kim and Emma K. Newton 5 Social Justice beyond Human Beings: Trans-species Social Justice 64 Atsuko Matsuoka and John Sorenson 6 The Moral Priority of Vulnerability and Dependency: Why Social Work Should Respect Both Humans and Animals 80 Thomas Ryan Part II The How : Practical Applications 7 The Impact of Animals and Nature for Children and Youth with Trauma Histories: Towards A Neurodevelopmental Theory 105 Eileen Bona and Gail Courtnage vii viii Contents 8 Animal-Assisted Therapy for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders 120 Shanna L. Burke and Dorothea Iannuzzi 9 ‘How Is Fido?’: What the Family’s Companion Animal Can Tell You about Risk Assessment and Effective Interventions – If Only You Would Ask! 135 Lynn Loar 10 The Place and Consequence of Animals in Contemporary Social Work Practice 151 Maureen MacNamara and Jeannine Moga 11 No One Ever Asked Me That: The Value of Social Work Inquiry into the Human-Animal Bond 167 Nina Papazian 12 Stray Dogs and Social Work in Mauritius: An Analysis of Some Concerns and Challenges 182 Komalsingh Rambaree 13 Liquid Love – Grief, Loss, Animal Companions and the Social Worker 199 Adrienne Elizabeth Thomas 14 Domestic Violence and Companion Animal Welfare: The Issues, Risks and Implications for Practice 215 Deborah Walsh Select Bibliography 229 Index 237 Series Editors’ Preface This is a new book series for a new field of inquiry: Animal Ethics. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the ethics of our treatment of animals. Philosophers have led the way, and now a range of other scholars have followed, from historians to social scientists. From being a marginal issue, animals have become an emerging issue in ethics and in multidisciplinary inquiry. In addition, rethinking the status of animals has been fuelled by a range of scientific investigations that have revealed the complexity of animal sentiency, cognition and awareness. The ethical implications of this new knowledge have yet to be properly evaluated, but it is becoming clear that the old view that animals are mere things, tools, machines or commodities cannot be sustained ethically. But it is not only philosophy and science that are putting animals on the agenda. Increasingly, in Europe and the United States, animals are becoming a political issue as political parties vie for the ‘green’ and ‘animal’ vote. In turn, political scientists are beginning to look again at the history of political thought in relation to animals, and historians are beginning to revisit the political history of animal protection. As animals grow as an issue of importance, so there have been more collaborative academic ventures leading to conference volumes, special journal issues, indeed new academic animal journals as well. Moreover, we have witnessed the growth of academic courses, as well as univer- sity posts, in Animal Ethics, Animal Welfare, Animal Rights, Animal Law, Animals and Philosophy, Human-Animal Studies, Critical Animal Studies, Animals and Society, Animals in Literature, Animals and Religion – tangible signs that a new academic discipline is emerging. ‘Animal Ethics’ is the new term for the academic exploration of the moral status of the non-human – an exploration that explicitly involves a focus on what we owe animals morally, and that also helps us to under- stand the influences – social, legal, cultural, religious and political – that legitimate animal abuse.