Cultural Dimensions of Well-Being - Therapy Animals As Healers

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

By Clementine K. Fujimura and Simone Nommensen

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Fujimura, Clementine K. Fujimura, Clementine K. Nommensen Fujimura, Fujimura Clementine K., Nommensen, Simone Nommensen
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781498541299
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4129-9
• No. of pages: 132
• Series: Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society; Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society; Anthropology of Well-Being: In
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology