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.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.,
[2018]
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| Series: | Anthropology of well-being.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Animals as therapists : how we discovered them and what they do
- Cultural foundations of human-animal relations
- Well-being through communication with and about our pets
- Mutual benefits through human-animal contact and training : what science and personal narratives tell
- The animal's perspective
- Conclusion
- Bibliography.