Last Walk - Reflections on Our Pets At the End of Their Lives

In a book that draws on both personal stories and research presents an in-depth exploration of the practical, medical and moral issues that trouble pet owners confronted with the decline and death of their companion animals.

About the author

Jessica Pierce is an internationally acclaimed bioethicist. Her work spans from broad considerations of human responsibilities for nature to detailed explorations of human-animal relationships. She has published eleven books, including Morality Play: Case Studies in Ethics and, most recently, A Dog's World: Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World without Humans. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, and Scientific American. Pierce is a faculty affiliate at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical School. She lives in the Colorado Rockies.

Product details

• Authors: Jessica Pierce, Jessica (Center for Bioethics and Humaniti Pierce, Jessica (Center for Bioethics and Humanities Pierce, Pierce Jessica
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.04.2014
• EAN: 9780226151007
• ISBN: 978-0-226-15100-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, PETS / General, Animals & society, Domestic animals & pets, Domestic animals and pets, Animals and society, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: Death & Dying