Literature on Human-Animal Relations

Since setting up this web site, I've received loads of e-mail messages from people - particularly students writing term papers! - looking for literature on the human-animal relationship.

To keep all you folks out there happy - and to save me from having to answer so many e-mails! - I've put together a basic (and I do mean basic) list of readily available and accessible literary resources on human-animal relations. Most of these books and journals you will be able to track down in your local (university) library, others can probably be purchased at larger bookshops.

This list is far from exhaustive and should be seen purely as a starting point for research into the human-animal relationship, there's a lot more stuff out there - particularly articles published in academic journals both popular and obscure - if you want to get more deeply into the subject and, for that matter, if you're prepared to look for it!

• Academic Journals
  
• Social Scientific and Historical Literature
  
• Pets
  
• Farm Animals
  
• Laboratory Animals
  
• Zoos and Wild Animals
  
• Animal Rights & Welfare
  

(The symbol * means highly recommended for introductory reading)

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Academic Journals

Society and Animals

Anthrozoös.

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Social Scientific and Historical Literature

Arluke, A. & Sanders, C.R. (1996) Regarding Animals. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Baker, S. (1993) Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity and Representation. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Fiddes, N. (1991) Meat: A Natural Symbol. London: Routledge.

Ingold, T. (ed) (1988) What is an Animal? London: Unwin Hyman.

Manning, A. & Serpell, J.A. (eds) (1986) Animals and Human Society: Changing Perspectives. London: Routledge.

Mitchell, R.W., Thompson, N.S. & Miles, H.L. (eds) (1997) Anthropomorphism, Anecdotes and Animals. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Ritvo, H. (1987) The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press.

Salisbury, J.E. (1986) The Beast Within: Animals in the Middle Ages. New York: Routledge.

Serpell, J.A. (1996) In the Company of Animals: A Study of Human-Animal Relationships. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Original published in 1986 by Basil Blackwell).*

Swabe, J.M. (1999) Animals, Disease and Human Society: Human-Animal Relations and the Rise of Veterinary Medicine London: Routledge.*

Thomas, K. (1983) Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England 1500-1800. London: Penguin.*

Toynbee, J.M.C. (1973) Animals in Roman Life and Art. London: Thames & Hudson.

Vialles, N. (1994) Animal to Edible. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Willis, R. (ed) (1990) Signifying Animals: Human Meaning in the Natural World. London: Routledge.

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Pets

Anderson, B.K., Hart, B.L. & Hart, A.L. (eds) (1984) The Pet Connection: Its Influence on our Health and Quality of Life. University of Minnesota.

CSS Report (1988) Companion Animals in Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press.*

Fogle, B. (ed) (1981) Interrelations between Pets and People. Springfield: Charles C. Thomas.

Katcher, A.H. & Beck, A.M. (eds) (1983) New Perspectives on our Lives with Companion Animals. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press.

Kete, K. (1994) The Beast in the Boudoir: Pet-keeping in Nineteenth Century Paris. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Levinson, B. (1972) Pets and Human Development. London: Wiedenfeld & Nicholson.

Robinson, I. (ed) (1995) The Waltham Book of Human-Animal Interaction: Benefits and Responsibilities of Pet Ownership. Oxford: Pergamon.*

Podberscek, A.L., Paul, E.S. & Serpell, J.A. (2000) Companion Animals and Us: Exploring the Relationships between People and Pets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Tuan, Y. (1984) Dominance and Affection: The Making of Pets. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Latham Foundation Selected Studies in the Human/Companion Animal Bond

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Farm Animals

Johnson, A. (1991) Factory Farming. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.*

Mason, J. & Singer, P. (1980) Animal Factories. New York: Crown.

Rifkin, J. (1992)Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture.New York: Dutton.

Sainsbury, D. (1986) Farm Animal Welfare: Cattle, Pigs and Poultry. London: Collins.

(see also Animal Rights and Welfare)

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Laboratory Animals

McAllister Groves, J. (1997) Hearts and Minds: The Controversy over Laboratory Animals. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

(see also Animal Rights and Welfare)

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Zoos and Wild Animals

Bostock, S. St. C. (1993) Zoos and Animal Rights: The Ethics of Keeping Animals. London: Routledge.

Cartmill, M. (1993) A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature through History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

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Animal Rights & Welfare

Broom, D.M. & Johnson, K.G. (1993) Stress and Animal Welfare. London: Chapman & Hall.

Cavalieri, P. & Singer, P. (eds) (1993) The Great Ape Project: Equality beyond Humanity. London: Fourth Estate.

Francione, G.L. (1996) Rain without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Harrison, R. (1964) Animal Machines. London: Stuart.

Midgley, M. (1983) Animals and Why They Matter. Athens: University of Georgia Press.

Regan, T. (1985) The Case for Animal Rights. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Ryder, R. (1989) Animal Revolution: Changing Attitudes towards Speciesism. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Singer, P. (1990) Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for our Treatment of Animals. New York: New York Review. (Revised Edition: First published 1975).*

Tester, K. (1991) Animals and Society: The Humanity of Animal Rights London: Routledge.

Webster, J. (1994) Animal Welfare: A Cool Eye Towards Eden. Oxford: Blackwell*

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Needless to say, I shall be adding many more titles to this list in the near future. Drop me a mail at jo@caliban.org if you think that there are any works that should be included in this list.