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Prato-Previde, Emanuela, Elisa Basso Ricci, and Elisa Silvia Colombo. "The Complexity of the Human–Animal Bond: Empathy, Attachment and Anthropomorphism in Human–Animal Relationships and Animal Hoarding." Animals 12, no. 20 (October 19, 2022): 2835. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani12202835.

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The human–animal relationship is ancient, complex and multifaceted. It may have either positive effects on humans and animals or poor or even negative and detrimental effects on animals or both humans and animals. A large body of literature has investigated the beneficial effects of this relationship in which both human and animals appear to gain physical and psychological benefits from living together in a reciprocated interaction. However, analyzing the literature with a different perspective it clearly emerges that not rarely are human–animal relationships characterized by different forms and levels of discomfort and suffering for animals and, in some cases, also for people. The negative physical and psychological consequences on animals’ well-being may be very nuanced and concealed, but there are situations in which the negative consequences are clear and striking, as in the case of animal violence, abuse or neglect. Empathy, attachment and anthropomorphism are human psychological mechanisms that are considered relevant for positive and healthy relationships with animals, but when dysfunctional or pathological determine physical or psychological suffering, or both, in animals as occurs in animal hoarding. The current work reviews some of the literature on the multifaceted nature of the human–animal relationship; describes the key role of empathy, attachment and anthropomorphism in human–animal relationships; seeks to depict how these psychological processes are distorted and dysfunctional in animal hoarding, with highly detrimental effects on both animal and human well-being.
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Reisbig, Allison M. J., McArthur Hafen, Adryanna A. Siqueira Drake, Destiny Girard, and Zachary B. Breunig. "Companion Animal Death." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 75, no. 2 (May 10, 2017): 124–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0030222815612607.

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Human–animal relationships are increasingly incorporated into families as a normal part of family life. Despite this, relationships with animals are often viewed as inferior to human relationships. This becomes problematic during times of loss and grief when members of a grieving companion animal owner's support system do not understand the salience of the relationship with the animal. Veterinary and other helping professionals need basic information about the experience of companion animal loss in order to help support and normalize the experiences of grieving companion animal owners. The present study qualitatively describes human–animal relationships and the subsequent loss and coping experienced by owners of beloved companion animals. Comparison with human and other types of loss and factors unique to companion animal loss are discussed, and practical applications for veterinary and other helping professionals are provided.
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Antonites, A., and J. S. J. Odendaal. "Ethics in Human-Animal Relationships." Acta Veterinaria Brno 73, no. 4 (2004): 539–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.2754/avb200473040539.

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Krause-Parello, Cheryl A. "Human-Animal Connections and Nursing Science: What Is the Relationship?" Nursing Science Quarterly 31, no. 3 (June 19, 2018): 239–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0894318418774901.

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Human-animal relationships have been documented for centuries. Animals are used for many purposes, such as enhancing human health, wellness, and companionship, to name a few. The human-animal relationship is different for every person and requires a holistic perspective. Nurses are interested in relationships that are caring, natural, and therapeutic. Research supports the profound and multifaceted health benefits of the human-animal bond. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relationship between the human-animal connection and nursing science.
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Marder, Amy R., and Laura R. Marder. "Human-Companion Animal Relationships and Animal Behavior Problems." Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice 15, no. 2 (March 1985): 411–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0195-5616(85)50313-7.

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Rowan, Andrew N. "Human-Animal Relationships: Symbol and Culture." Anthrozoös 8, no. 2 (June 1995): 67–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/089279395787156392.

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Clark, Ann K. "Animal Pragmatism: Rethinking Human-Nonhuman Relationships." Journal of Speculative Philosophy 20, no. 1 (January 1, 2006): 56–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25670595.

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Scheel, David. "Octopuses in wild and domestic relationships." Social Science Information 57, no. 3 (July 4, 2018): 403–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0539018418785485.

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People commonly interact with terrestrial domestic animals, such as dogs and cats, horses, cattle and goats, and birds. Thereby individuals of different species form animal–human bonds. We are now forming relationships with ocean animals in increasingly common ways through growing human populations, advances in technology such as SCUBA, ocean mapping, underwater instrumentation and advances in aquatic animal husbandry. Octopuses and humans share quite distant evolutionary ties and yet share aspects of sensory ability and intelligence. Octopuses thereby pose interesting challenges and conundrums for understanding animal–human relationships. I consider several reasons to expect that the evolution of octopuses, and of animal cognition generally among active and visually sophisticated animals, will favour traits that support relationships between individuals. The evolutionary outcome of animals capable of forming inter-individual relationships may thus be expected in any evolving biota with organisms of this kind. This article explores the ability of ocean and terrestrial animals to relate to one another in ways that are reciprocal, if not equally balanced, and illustrates this with the examples of octopuses.
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Menna, Lucia Francesca, Antonio Santaniello, Margherita Todisco, Alessia Amato, Luca Borrelli, Cristiano Scandurra, and Alessandro Fioretti. "The Human–Animal Relationship as the Focus of Animal-Assisted Interventions: A One Health Approach." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 19 (September 29, 2019): 3660. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16193660.

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Background: Animal-assisted intervention (AAIs) represent an adequate expression of integrated medicine, according to the One Health approach. We argue that AAIs are interventions based on interspecific relationships between humans and animals. Although there are many studies on the effects of AAIs on animal and human health and wellbeing, research is still needed to give us more data. For example, information is still lacking on the aspects characterizing and influencing the interspecific relationships occurring in AAIs. The efficacy of an intervention based on interspecific relationships will be influenced by different factors, such as attachment styles and personalities of both the animal and the handler, an appropriate choice of animal species and their individuality, animal educational training techniques, the relationship between the handler and the animal, and relational reciprocity between animal, the patients, and members of the working team. Method: This article aims to contribute to the study of interspecific relationships in AAIs via theoretical considerations. An interspecific relationship determines the result of safe interventions, which directly influences the welfare of the animal. Results and considerations: AAIs should be evaluated systemically as a network within a process in which every component interacts with and influences other components. Standardized methods using appropriate tests and parameters are needed to better select appropriate animals (i.e., species and individual subjects) using interspecific relational competences as well as appropriate educational training methods and health protocols to assess potential risks.
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Lowe, Brian M. "Confronting Animal Abuse: Law, Criminology, and Human-Animal Relationships." Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 39, no. 4 (July 2010): 420–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0094306110373238b.

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Brando, Sabrina, Chris Dold, Vinícius Donisete Lima Rodrigues Goulart, and Todd Robeck. "Factors Influencing the Development of Human–Animal Relationships at SeaWorld Entertainment Parks." Aquatic Mammals 49, no. 3 (May 15, 2023): 294–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1578/am.49.3.2023.294.

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While the existence of human–animal relationships dates back thousands of years, the effects of these bonds on animal well-being have only recently been examined in detail. The existing literature demonstrates that factors such as familiar human caregivers and persistent, predictable care may, for example, lower an animal’s fear response and improve overall welfare. The goal of the present study was to analyse how a range of variables, including age, sex, animal species, and previous bonds with a pet could influence the development of human–animal bonds between caregivers and animals at six affiliated zoological facilities. The present study is a survey of 201 animal caregivers focusing on their perception of the bonds shared between themselves and an animal with which they work and any experience with bonds they have with a companion animal at home. All respondents, regardless of the existence of a human–animal bond, also indicated their level of agreement with a series of general statements about human–animal relationships and their effects on animal management and welfare. The present study demonstrates that the type of animal species has a significant effect on the development of bonds between animals and their human caregivers, with a greater percentage of bonds developed between people and other mammalian species, and the smaller percentage of bonds between people and fish or reptiles. Personal identifiers, such as age, sex, or the number of years in the profession, did not have any significant correlation to bond development. In addition, having pets was also not a predictor of caregiver–animal bonds, though previous experiences with animal bonds did indicate a tendency to develop a bond. Overall, surveyed caregivers agreed with positive statements about human–animal relationships and their role in promoting better welfare for animals. Understanding the bonds shared by animal caregivers and the animals for which they are responsible is essential to fostering workplaces that consider the importance of the relationship between humans and animals, and the tangible benefits a positively perceived bond can have for both.
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Whitley, Cameron. "Exploring the Place of Animals and Human–Animal Relationships in Hydraulic Fracturing Discourse." Social Sciences 8, no. 2 (February 18, 2019): 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci8020061.

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Throughout human history, energy security has been a prominent concern. Historically, animals were used as energy providers and as companions and sentinels in mining operations. While animals are seldom used for these purposes in developed communities today, this legacy of use is likely to have far-reaching consequences for how animals and human–animal relationships are acknowledged in energy development. The US is currently experiencing an energy boom in the form of high volume horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (HVHHF); because animals are the most at risk from this boom, this study uses a thorough content analysis of peer-reviewed HVHHF articles mentioning animals from 2012–2018 to assess how animals and human–animal relationships are discussed. Three dominant article theme classifications emerge: animal-focused articles, animal-observant articles, and animal sentinel articles. Across themes, articles seldom acknowledge the inherent value or the social and psychological importance of animals in human lives; instead, the focus is almost exclusively on the use of animals as sentinels for potential human health risks. Further, what is nearly absent from this body of literature is any social science research. Given that relationships with animals are an integral part of human existence, this study applies environmental justice principles, serving as a call to action for social science scholars to address the impacts of HVHHF on animals and human–animal relationships.
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Neupane, Ravindra. "Humans and Animals’ Relationship in Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves." Baneshwor Campus Journal of Academia 2, no. 1 (June 13, 2023): 47–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/bcja.v2i1.55760.

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This article has explored on the relationships between humans and nonhuman creatures which has long been a predominant dichotomous conceptualization. Especially it has analyzed Karen Joy Fowler’s book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves which focuses on the relationship between humans and animals. The book also makes readers think about the interspecies relationship’s ethics and epistemologies as a part of ecopoetics. The present debate over animal rights and the condemnation of speciesism, which accords human creatures’ epistemic and ontological privilege, are central issues in critical and cultural animal studies. The dichotomous view of human-animal relationships holds that there is a categorical border between humans - who are perceived as moral subjects with personal rights and whose internal life is psychologically accessible - and animals, some of which can be considered as companions but always have a lower (or no) status in terms of legal and cultural status and whose minds are inaccessible. To investigate human and animal relations, I have formulated three steps throughout the paper. I have started by discussing recent theories that examine the bond between us and monkeys. Then I have discussed how Kellogg's experiment serves as a significant backdrop to Fowler's book. Finally, I have addressed the novel’s contribution to current critical discussions about human-animal interactions and animal rights, as well as the major plot of the book, which develops when the protagonist learns her own role in the ecopoetics of her chimpanzee sister Fern. The paper has investigated ecopoetics that emphasizes the move from interspecies companionship and togetherness to human superiority and instrumental asymmetry, focusing on the intricate human-animal relationships which recount an environment that causes (non-)human trauma and loss.
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Birke, Lynda. "Structuring relationships: On science, feminism and non-human animals." Feminism & Psychology 20, no. 3 (August 2010): 337–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353510371324.

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Non-human animals and their behaviour are part of the remit of what psychology studies; yet they are largely absent from feminist theory. This is in part due to earlier decades of feminist disavowal of biology and biological determinism (manifest in the sex/gender distinction). To exclude animals makes little sense, however, as animal societies continue to be used as models for humans, including gender differences. In this article, I argue that how we see gender in animal societies is not only an extrapolation from our own cultural mores, but is also produced in part by the material practices of laboratories. If laboratory animals are kept in impoverished, restricted conditions, then it is perhaps not surprising that experiments designed to investigate their sexuality or gender differences produce limited understandings. To counteract these tales of biological restriction, we need to look more at the complexities of non-human animal behaviour and society — and in particular to emphasize how we build relationships with non-humans, as mutual co-creations.
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Anderson, Myrdene, and James Serpell. "In the Company of Animals: A Study of Human-Animal Relationships." Contemporary Sociology 17, no. 1 (January 1988): 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2069456.

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Kiser, Lisa J. "The Animals That Therefore They Were: Some Chaucerian Animal/Human Relationships." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 34, no. 1 (2012): 311–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sac.2012.0027.

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George, Adam J., and Sarah L. Bolt. "The importance of the human–animal relationship for commercial farms." Livestock 28, no. 1 (January 2, 2023): 28–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/live.2023.28.1.28.

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The human–animal relationship is a key aspect of managing livestock. Poor stockmanship may lead to negative implications for the health, welfare and productivity of farm animals and could lead to poor job satisfaction for the stockperson. It can also make it potentially difficult for veterinarians and farmers to treat livestock because an animal may associate humans with negative experiences. This review summarises research based on human–animal interactions, discusses its implications for the health and welfare of livestock, and provides suggestions for improving relationships between humans and farm animals.
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Spannring, Reingard. "I and Animal Thou." Society & Animals 23, no. 6 (November 16, 2015): 613–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685306-12341384.

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Nonhuman animals and human-animal relationships have so far attracted very little interest among educational scientists. However, from the perspective of human-animal studies, the strong impact of education, learning, and socialization on the continuous reproduction of culturally formed human-animal relationships suggests a rich and important research area for educational science. Educational science has neglected nonhuman beings as participants in learning environments and victims of the end result of human education. It has also failed to deconstruct the anthropocentric basis of mainstream educational theory, its understanding of learning and teaching, and the meaning of being human. Building on Martin Buber’s philosophy of dialogue, a relational approach in educational theory was developed that integrates nonhuman animals and sees the aim of education in fostering the growth of whole persons in relationships in a more than human world.
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Acharya, Rutu Y., Paul H. Hemsworth, Grahame J. Coleman, and James E. Kinder. "The Animal-Human Interface in Farm Animal Production: Animal Fear, Stress, Reproduction and Welfare." Animals 12, no. 4 (February 16, 2022): 487. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani12040487.

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A negative human-animal relationship (HAR) from the perspective of the animal is a limiting factor affecting farm animal welfare, as well as farm animal productivity. Research in farm animals has elucidated sequential relationships between stockperson attitudes, stockperson behaviour, farm animal fear behaviour, farm animal stress physiology, and farm animal productivity. In situations where stockperson attitudes to and interactions with farm animals are sub-optimal, through animal fear and stress, both animal welfare and productivity, including reproductive performance, can be compromised. There is a growing body of evidence that farm animals often seek and enjoy interacting with humans, but our understanding of the effects of a positive HAR on stress resilience and productivity in farm animals is limited. In this review, we explore the pathways by which stress induced by human-animal interactions can negatively affect farm animal reproduction, in particular, via inhibitory effects on the secretion of gonadotrophins. We also review the current knowledge of the stockperson characteristics and the nature of stockperson interactions that affect fear and physiological stress in farm animals. The contents of this review provide an insight into the importance of the HAR on farm animal welfare and reproduction while highlighting the gap in knowledge regarding the effects of a positive HAR on farm animals.
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Brandler, Jacob. "Do “Animals” Have Histor(ies)? Can/Should Humans Know Them? A Heuristic Reframing of Animal-Human Relationships." Journal of Animal Ethics 12, no. 2 (October 1, 2022): 148–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/21601267.12.2.05.

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Abstract The Western history discipline has recently experienced a growing appreciation of animals as subjects of historical concern, part of what has been described as the “animal turn” in the humanities. While briefly examining some historiographical points related to this burgeoning trend, this article looks to the question of whether animals have history itself as a device to reframe the relationship humans have with both animals and history. Through this process, this article highlights how respecting the unknown possibility and the possibility of the unknown history from the animal perspective recasts the inquiry into “history” as a parochial human endeavor, entangled in the limits of human knowledge, perception, and frailty. It is this same human frailty that explains why humans must understand animal history if only from a human perspective—because humans have fundamentally depended on animals for their survival and development in their own history. Taking these points together, this article asserts that appreciating the existence (and weakness) of the human lens gives new meaning and a sense of humility to the inquiry into animal history, such as how animal history may be better understood in the plural (“histories”), how humans might be freed from universal history and human exceptionalism, and how this humility encourages more ethical treatment of animals.
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Dillon, Grace. "Totemic Human-Animal Relationships in Recent Sf." Extrapolation 49, no. 1 (January 2008): 70–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/extr.2008.49.1.5.

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Tanner, Adrian, and Robert Brightman. "Grateful Prey: Rock Cree Human-Animal Relationships." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 3, no. 4 (December 1997): 808. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3034069.

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Ridington, Robin, and Robert A. Brightman. "Grateful Prey: Rock Cree Human-Animal Relationships." Western Historical Quarterly 26, no. 2 (1995): 238. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/970221.

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Clark, Ann K. "Animal Pragmatism: Rethinking Human-Nonhuman Relationships (review)." Journal of Speculative Philosophy 20, no. 1 (2006): 56–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jsp.2006.0011.

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Ellis, Annalyse, Steve Loughnan, Roxanne D. Hawkins, and Sarah C. E. Stanton. "The Associations between Human–Companion Animal Relationship Duration, Companion Animal Life Stage, and Relationship Quality." Animals 14, no. 11 (May 29, 2024): 1606. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani14111606.

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Although many companion animal (or “pet”) owners report that their relationships with their pets are important, we know little about how animal ownership duration and animal life stage are related to relationship quality. In a sample of 1303 dog and cat owners, the present research explored the associations between relationship duration, pet life stage (puppy/kitten, young adult, mature adult, and senior), and four markers of relationship quality: pet-related self-expansion, perceived pet responsiveness, perceived pet insensitivity, and human–animal bond. We found that relationship duration was negatively and linearly associated with self-expansion for both dog and cat owners. Results comparing relationship quality markers across pet life stages revealed that for both dog and cat owners, self-expansion was higher for owners of younger animals compared to owners of older animals. There were no significant effects for perceived pet responsiveness, perceived pet insensitivity, or human–animal bond based on relationship duration or animal life stage. These findings indicate that the duration of the relationship with one’s pet and animal life stage have implications for how much people feel a pet helps them grow, whereas other markers of human–pet relationship quality likely vary based on other experiences.
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Greenhough, Beth, and Emma Roe. "Attuning to laboratory animals and telling stories: Learning animal geography research skills from animal technologists." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 37, no. 2 (October 29, 2018): 367–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263775818807720.

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Posthumanism has challenged the social sciences and humanities to rethink anthopocentricism within the cultures and societies they study and to take account of more-than-human agencies and perspectives. This poses key methodological challenges, including a tendency for animal geographies to focus very much on the human side of human–animal relations and to fail to acknowledge animals as embodied, lively, articulate political subjects. In this paper, we draw on recent ethnographic work, observing and participating in the care of research animals and interviewing the animal technologists, to contribute to the understandings of life within the animal house. In so doing, the paper makes three key arguments. Firstly, that studying how animal technologists perform everyday care and make sense of their relationships with animals offers useful insights into the specific skills, expertise and relationships required in order to study human–animal relations. Secondly, that animal technologists are keenly aware of the contested moralities which emerge in animal research environments and can offer an important position from which to understand this. Thirdly, that storytelling (exemplified by the stories told by animal technologists) is a useful resource for animal geographers to engage with complexity in human–animal relations.
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Becker, Anna. "On Women and Beasts: Human-Animal Relationships in Sixteenth-Century Thought." AJIL Unbound 111 (2017): 262–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aju.2017.68.

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We are used to the view that historically “what counted as fully human always depended … on a sharp contrast with ‘the animal’.” As a consequence, “[w]omen and slaves, in being denied full humanity, were therefore necessarily partaking in animal nature.” Questioning this view, this essay traces how some early modern thinkers defined the relationship of human beings to animals generally, and, more particularly, how they saw the relationship of women, slaves, and animals in the human household. The picture presented, while being far from complete, aims to show that Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century thinkers had nuanced arguments to offer when they discussed the relationship of human animals to nonhuman animals, and the relationship of nature and culture, neither of which were presented as clear cut opposites. At the same time, the equation of women with animals and slaves was not something that was commonly found in Sixteenth Century philosophical treatises, which might lead us to rethink our own ideas about equating one disenfranchised group with the other.
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Cameron, Abigail E. "Understanding Non-Human and Human Animal Relationships in American Society." Qualitative Sociology 37, no. 4 (November 13, 2014): 467–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11133-014-9290-z.

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Futterman, Allison, and Bruce A. Arrigo. "Book review: Confronting Animal Abuse: Law, Criminology, and Human–Animal Relationships." Theoretical Criminology 16, no. 1 (February 2012): 115–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362480611425412.

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Andreozzi, Matteo. "Humans’ Best Friend? The Ethical Dilemma of Pets." Relations, no. 2 (November 2013): 23–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/rela-2013-002-andr.

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The main aim of this paper is to demonstrate the need for a reassessment of the moral status of pets. I argue that pets rest on an undefined ethical borderline, which brings several puzzling problems to both human-centered ethics and animal ethics and that neither of these fields adequately handles these issues. I focus specifically on human relationships with companion animals as one of the most significant interspecific relationship involving humans and pets. I also show that a deeper questioning of the moral status of pets is a required step toward the moral rethinking of human-animal relationships.
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Michalon, Jérôme. "The Rise of Therapy Animals’ Personhood." Humanimalia 11, no. 2 (March 20, 2020): 131–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.9456.

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Based on a sociohistorical description of the emergence of animal assisted care practices, this research note explores the link between professional dynamics and the recent evolution of human-animal relationships. A joint process of professionalization and subjectivation is observed: the more these practices are defined as “therapy,” involving healthcare professionals, the more animals are seen as singular beings, even persons. It is argued that looking at human-animal relationships can bring to light the ontological dimensions of professional dynamics, and, symmetrically, that looking at professions can be relevant to understand the evolution of human-animal relationships, and contribute to reflections on animal work.
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Oliver, Kelly. "Animal Ethics: Toward an Ethics of Responsiveness." Research in Phenomenology 40, no. 2 (2010): 267–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156916410x509959.

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AbstractThe concepts of animal, human, and rights are all part of a philosophical tradition that trades on foreclosing the animal, animality, and animals. Rather than looking to qualities or capacities that make animals the same as or different from humans, I investigate the relationship between the human and the animal. To insist, as animal rights and welfare advocates do, that our ethical obligations to animals are based on their similarities to us reinforces the type of humanism that leads to treating animals—and other people—as subordinates. But, if recent philosophies of difference are any indication, we can acknowledge difference without acknowledging our dependence on animals, or without including animals in ethical considerations. Animal ethics requires rethinking both identity and difference by focusing on relationships and responsivity. My aim is not only to suggest an animal ethics but also to show how ethics itself is transformed by considering animals.
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Huff, Jacob M. "Bared Teeth, Plucked Feathers, Broken Eggs: Reading Human-Animal Relationships through Audubon." IU Journal of Undergraduate Research 2, no. 1 (May 31, 2016): 6–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.14434/iujur.v2i1.20914.

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In this paper, I study John James Audubon’s famed drawings of wildlife to uncover his perspective on the evolving relationships between humans and animals during the era of American westward expansion. Using three engravings from Birds of America, along with his accompanying essays, I look beyond the animals in the foreground to examine the human settlements often lurking in the background. I discover that Audubon portrays three distinct types of human-animal relationships, which I then compare to the human presence shown in two of his later works, the engravings of Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America and their subsequent essays. This second set of drawings undercuts any attempt to derive an optimistic interpretation of the Birds plates, for they reveal an unsustainable relationship between humans and the animals whose habitats they invade. I conclude that while Birds and Quadrupeds glorify their animal subjects, rightly qualifying as artistic and scientific triumphs, their depiction of human activity carries a much darker weight, suggesting that human presence in nature necessarily causes damage. Ultimately, this idea recasts Audubon as a thinker who transcends his historical location and offers a relevant perspective on the environment occupied by the modern reader.
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Gunawan, Michelle. "Navigating human and non-human animal relations: Okja, Foucault and animal welfare laws." Alternative Law Journal 43, no. 4 (November 15, 2018): 263–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1037969x18802459.

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This article draws upon a Foucauldian analysis of power to conceptualise the human and non-human animal relations throughout the Netflix film Okja. The article examines how ‘super-pig’ Okja’s experiences (and subjectivities) are deeply shaped by the ‘apparatuses’ within which Okja is situated. As the power relationships and practices of ‘domination’ portrayed in Okja highlight, the legal categorisation of animals and their foundations within mainstream discourses reflect, and perpetuate, society’s understanding of the moral significance of animals. Okja’s transformation throughout the film, as well as her very existence as a hybrid ‘super-pig’, confuses the legal categorisation of non-human animals and highlights a double standard in the law.
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Melson, Gail. "Psychology and the Study of Human-Animal Relationships." Society & Animals 10, no. 4 (2002): 347–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853002320936791.

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Blackshaw, Judith K. "Developments in the study of human-animal relationships." Applied Animal Behaviour Science 47, no. 1-2 (April 1996): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0168-1591(95)01005-x.

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McDonald, Hugh. "Book Review: Animal Pragmatism: Rethinking Human-Nonhuman Relationships." Organization & Environment 18, no. 3 (September 2005): 381–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1086026605279108.

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Coleman, GJ, M. Rice, and PH Hemsworth. "Human-animal relationships at sheep and cattle abattoirs." Animal Welfare 21, no. 1 (June 1, 2012): 15–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.7120/096272812x13353700593329.

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Russell, Nerissa. "The Wild Side of Animal Domestication." Society & Animals 10, no. 3 (2002): 285–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853002320770083.

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AbstractThis paper examines not the process but the concept of nonhuman animal domestication. Domestication involves both biological and cultural components. Creating a category of domestic animals means constructing and crossing the boundaries between human and animal, culture and nature. The concept of domestication thus structures the thinking both of researchers in the present and of domesticators and herders in the past. Some have argued for abandoning the notion of domestication in favor of a continuum of human-nonhuman animal relationships. Although many human-animal relationships cannot be neatly pigeonholed as wild or domestic, this paper contends that the concept of domestication retains its utility.There is a critical distinction between animals as a resource and animals as property. Domestication itself had profound consequences for the societies and worldview of the domesticators and their descendents. In addition to the material effects of animal wealth, domestic animals provide both a rich source of metaphor and a model of domination that can be extended to humans.
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Mulcock, Jane, and Natalie Lloyd. "Human-Animal Studies in Australia: Current Directions." Society & Animals 15, no. 1 (2007): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853007x169306.

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AbstractIn 2004, Natalie Lloyd and Jane Mulcock initiated the Australian Animals & Society Study Group, a network of social science, humanities and arts scholars that quickly grew to include more than 100 participants. In July 2005, about 50 participants attended the group's 4-day inaugural conference at the University of Western Australia, Perth. Papers in this issue emerged from the conference. They exemplify the Australian academy's work in the fields of History, Population Health, Sociology, Geography, and English and address strong themes: human-equine relationships; management of native and introduced animals; and relationships with other domestic, nonhuman animals—from cats and dogs to cattle. Human-Animal Studies is an expanding field in Australia. However, many scholars, due to funding and teaching concerns, focus their primary research in different domains. All authors in this issue—excepting one—are new scholars in their respective fields. The papers represent the diversity and innovation of recent Australian research on human-animal interactions. The authors look at both past and present, then anticipate future challenges in building an effective network to expand this field of study in Australia.
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Seamer, John. "Twenty years on-changes in laboratory animal science." Laboratory Animals 28, no. 4 (October 1, 1994): 307–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/002367794780745164.

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Changes in laboratory animal science in the 20 years since George Porter's death are reviewed, with particular emphasis on animal welfare. The need for a generally acceptable definition of animal welfare is emphasized and a new definition is propounded. The concept of stewardship as a basis for human-animal relationships is explored. This involves Man accepting his responsibility for his relationship with, and care of, animals while simultaneously accepting a moral responsibility to God, or others, for that care and relationship.
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Brown, Sue-Ellen. "The Human-Animal Bond and Self Psychology: Toward a New Understanding." Society & Animals 12, no. 1 (2004): 67–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853004323029540.

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AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to introduce and define self psychology and its concepts (self and selfobject) so that they can be applied toward a new understanding of the human-nonhuman animal bond. The paper utilizes selected literature from both self psychology and the human-animal bond fields. The paper contains four primary conclusions: 1. Self psychology provides a unique model for understanding the depth and meaning of human-animal relationships; 2. Companion animals and humans can be equally important in their selfobject roles; 3. Self psychology can offer a model for understanding individual differences in attachment to companion animals; and 4. A future direction includes finding ways to assess self psychology constructs in order to measure the depth and function of the selfobject relationship.
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Anthony, R. "The Ethical Implications of the Human-Animal Bond on the Farm." Animal Welfare 12, no. 4 (November 2003): 505–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0962728600026099.

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AbstractArguably, grounding animal ethics in traditional moral theories such as utilitarianism or rights-based ethics is impoverished since they emphasise impartiality and abstractness in our ethical deliberations at the expense of giving proper weight to special relationships we have with other individuals. Here, I explore the human-animal bond as a starting point for animal ethics, and focus on the resulting moral implications of this bond on farm animal welfare. The human-animal bond revisits values inherent in the nature of animal husbandry and is also influenced by philosophical ethics of caring. Farmers or stockpersons who form close bonds with their animals make an implicit promise to discharge duties to their animal companions above and beyond respectful treatment as sentient beings. Scientific study suggests that interpersonal human-animal relationships may translate to better care and consideration for farmed animals, promoting both better animal welfare and on-farm productivity. Acknowledging the existence of human-animal bonds on the farm and encouraging farmers and animal handlers not to shy away from forming bonds with their animals is recommended. Farmers, stockpersons, and contract-farmers for agribusinesses should be given an ethical voice to lodge grievances about how farmed animals are treated and be encouraged to participate in discussions on farming practices and animal welfare standards. They should also be educated on gains made through scientific enquiry regarding the capacities and needs of animals as well as on welfare advances.
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Adams, Matthew. "The kingdom of dogs: Understanding Pavlov’s experiments as human–animal relationships." Theory & Psychology 30, no. 1 (December 30, 2019): 121–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959354319895597.

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The growth of Human–Animal Studies, multi-species, and posthuman scholarship reflects an “animal turn” offering important theoretical, ethical, and methodological challenges to humanities, science, and social science disciplines, though psychology, in particular, has been slow to engage with these developments. This article is the first to apply the conceptual lens of the “animal turn” to Pavlov’s experiments with dogs. It is unique in applying in particular the work of feminist cultural theorist Donna Haraway, to radically reframe the human–animal relationship at the core of these landmark experiments. This original portrait is contrasted with contemporary retellings of those experiments which ignore or are indifferent to the complexities of that relationship. Paying attention to nonhuman others that constitute animal experimentation in psychology, historically, today, and in retellings, is argued to be a vitally important step for psychology today. The analysis provided constitutes a distinctive, radical shift in the way psychology might approach the lives of nonhuman animals, in its own past and present, with far-reaching implications for the future development of psychology.
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Ivana, Jessica, Tjokorda Udiana Nindhia Pemayun, and I. Ketut Mustika. "Pet Attachment and Animal Abuse in Human Relationships with Pets as Inspiration for Digital Artworks." CITA KARA : JURNAL PENCIPTAAN DAN PENGKAJIAN SENI MURNI 4, no. 1 (April 26, 2024): 30–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.59997/ctkr.v4i1.3631.

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Humans and animals have coexisted for a long time with mutual benefits to one another. Relationships between species can create a balanced relationship for the survival of living things on earth. Attachment is an emotional relationship formed by individuals with other individuals who are considered stronger during their lives. Attachment will tend to encourage individuals to trigger closeness through contact and sad reactions due to separation. Individuals have the goal of seeking security and comfort in attachment. Human attachment to pets includes emotional, psychological, and physical interactions that will develop into a good mutual relationship. In attachment relationships, the role of empathy, attachment and anthropomorphism (the human tendency to assign characteristics, feelings and behaviors to non-human species) can influence the level of concern for pet welfare. Lack of empathy, attachment and anthropomorphism can lead to lower levels of care for animals, which may lead to neglect and abuse. Animal abuse is deliberate and repeated behavior with the aim of causing physical or psychological suffering to animals. Physical or psychological suffering in detail includes suffering and misery as well as the onset of pain and death of the animal.
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Boivin, X., P. Le Neindre, and J. M. Chupin. "Establishment of cattle-human relationships." Applied Animal Behaviour Science 32, no. 4 (January 1992): 325–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0168-1591(05)80025-5.

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Henry, S., D. Hemery, M. A. Richard, and M. Hausberger. "Human–mare relationships and behaviour of foals toward humans." Applied Animal Behaviour Science 93, no. 3-4 (September 2005): 341–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2005.01.008.

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Evans, Nikki, and Maria Perez-y-Perez. "Will Marley come home? An exploration of the impacts of the Canterbury earthquakes on people’s relationships with their companion animals." Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work 25, no. 2 (May 15, 2016): 7–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol25iss2id76.

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A sizeable number of New Zealand homes contain at least one companion animal – and many of these are afforded the status of family member by their human owner(s). It follows then that when a series of high-magnitude earthquakes shook the New Zealand city of Christchurch and the Canterbury region it is located within, many people and their companion animals were impacted. Generic and disaster-specific research into animal-human relationships has mostly been undertaken outside of the profession of social work. However, a number of recent social work research and theoretical papers draw attention to the need for this discipline to also embrace this field (Evans Gray, 2012; Morley Fook, 2005; Tedeschi, Fitchett, Molidor, 2005; Risley-Curtiss, Holley, Wolf, 2006b; Risley-Curtiss, 2010). The aftermath of the Canterbury earthquakes has revealed a need to look critically at how animal-human relationships are perceived, and the potential for these relationships to be considered within routine social work assessments and interventions. This paper considers the role of companion animals in people’s lives, addresses the status of these animals during the Canterbury earthquakes, explores issues of loss and resiliency within animal-human relationships and looks at the implications of these relationships for social work practice and research.
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Hemsworth, P. H., J. L. Barnett, and G. J. Coleman. "The Human-Animal Relationship in Agriculture and Its Consequences for the Animal." Animal Welfare 2, no. 1 (February 1993): 33–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s096272860001544x.

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AbstractAlthough human factors are recognized as influential factors affecting the welfare and productivity of farm animals, only limited research has been conducted to identify these important human characteristics and to quantify their effects. During the last 13 years we have studied two apparently important human factors: the attitude and the behaviour of stockpersons towards farm animals.We have proposed that in intensive animal production systems there are some important sequential relationships between the attitude and behaviour of the stockperson towards farm animals and the behaviour, performance and welfare of farm animals. Basically we have suggested that because a stockperson's behaviour towards animals is largely under volitional control it is strongly influenced by the attitudes and beliefs that the stockperson holds about the animals. Furthermore, the stockperson's behaviour towards animals affects the animals’ fear of humans which, in turn, affects the animals’ productivity and welfare. It is the occurrence of a stress response by animals which are highly fearful of humans which places their productivity and welfare at risk We have published data which strongly support these interrelationships between human attitude and behaviour and animal behaviour, productivity and welfare. This paper reviews this and other research on this subject. The results of research in the pig industry and to a lesser extent, the poultry industries indicate the excellent opportunity which exists to improve animal productivity and welfare by training and selecting stockpersons to have desirable attitudinal and behavioural profiles towards farm animals.
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Hemsworth, PH, JL Barnett, and GJ Coleman. "The integration of human-animal relations into animal welfare monitoring schemes." Animal Welfare 18, no. 4 (November 2009): 335–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0962728600000737.

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AbstractThere are increasing local and international pressures for farm animal welfare monitoring schemes. Housing of farm animals is a contentious issue for many, although the impact of the housing system may be overestimated by some. In contrast, the topic of stockmanship has received relatively little attention, even though research has shown that animal carers or stockpeople have a major impact on the welfare of their livestock. While welfare monitoring schemes are likely to improve animal welfare, the impact of such schemes will only be realised by recognising the limitations of stockpeople, monitoring ‘stockmanship’ and providing specific stockperson training to target key aspects of stockmanship. Appropriate strategies to recruit and train stock-people in the livestock industries are integral to safeguarding the welfare of livestock. Monitoring the key job-related characteristics of the stockperson, attitudes to animals and to working with these animals, empathy, work motivation and technical knowledge and skills, provides the opportunity to detect deficits in stockmanship and the necessity for further targeted training. Due to the strong relationships between stockperson attitudes and behaviours and animal fear responses, as well as the relationships between attitudes and other job-related characteristics, we believe attitudes, together with empathy, work motivation and technical knowledge and skills, should be the principal focus of measuring stockmanship in on-farm welfare monitoring schemes.
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