Main description:

This diverse, global, and interdisciplinary volume explores the existing research, practice, and ethical issues pertinent to the field of human-animal interactions (HAI), interventions, and anthrozoology, focusing on the complex interactions between animals and humans in many settings, including both the benefits the challenges derived from these relationships.

The book begins by exploring the basic theoretical principles of anthrozoology and HAI, such as the evolution and history of the field, the importance of language, the economic costs and current perspectives to physical and mental wellbeing, the origins of domestication of animals, anthropomorphism, and how animals fit into human societies. Chapters then move on to practical applications, covering topics such as how animals contribute to childhood and adulthood development, pet ownership, disability, the roles of pets for people with psychiatric disorders, the links between animal and domestic abuse, and then more widely into the therapeutic roles of animals, animal-assisted therapies, interactions outside the home, working animals, animals in popular culture, and animals in research, for leisure, and food. Including chapters on a wide range on animals, from domesticated pets to wildlife, this collection examines the benefits yet also reveals the complexity and difficulties of human-animal relations.

This collection would be of great interest to students and practitioners in the fields of mental health, psychology, veterinary medicine, zoology, biology, social work, history, and sociology.

Contents:

1. An Introduction to HAI and Anthrozoology

Aubrey H. Fine, Alan Beck, Megan K. Mueller

2. Valuational (Ethical) Inquiry, Animals and Us: Contemporary Framings and Future Imaginaries

Raymond X Anthony, Andreia De Paula Vieira

3. A Legal Opinion and Pets and Housing in the US

Dianne Prado

4. All for One Health and One Health for All

Zenithson Ng, Isabella Pfeiffer

5. Current Perspectives on the Health effects (Mental and Physical) of Human-Animal Interaction (HAI)

Erika Friedmann, Lincy Koodaly

6. Challenges and Opportunities in Establishing the Evidence Base for the Impact of Human-Animal Interactions on Human Health and Well-Being

Kerri E. Rodriguez, Erin Flynn, Jaci Gandenberger, Marisa Motiff, Kevin N. Morris

7. Anthropomorphism and Anthropocentrism in the Anthropocene

Randy Lockwood

8. Pets and Housing: A One Health/One Welfare Issue

Brinda Jegatheesan, Elizabeth Ormerod, Taryn Graham,Wendy Stone, Emma Power, Debbie Rook, Sandra McCune

9. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in Human-Animal Interactions: Reflections on Practice

Sloane Hawes, Lizett Justa Gutierrez, Lindsay Rojas, Rebecca Cohen, Bridget Camacho, Ashley Taeckens-Seabaugh, Tess Hupe, Nina Ekholm Fry

10. Across Worlds: Cultural, Religious, and Societal Factors Influencing Interactions with Animal

Georgitta Valiyamattam

11. Animal Cognition

Lena Provoost

12. Animal Sentience, Animal Emotions, and Human-Animal Interactions

Annika Bremhorst, Catia Caeiro, Anna Zamansky, Sabrina Karl

13. Animal domestication in west Eurasia: what the histories of dogs, cattle, and horses tell us about the domestication process

Benjamin Arbuckle

14. Why do we love the pets we have? The Role of Animals and Family

Alan Beck, Aubrey H. Fine, Stanley Coren, Erin K. King, Steve Feldman, Lindsey Braun

15. Animals in Development: Childhood and Adolescence

Erin K. King, Eli D. Halbreich, Megan K. Mueller,

16. Animals in Development: Aging Adults

Jessica Bibbo, Ann M. Toohey

17. LGBTQIA+ Populations and Human-Animal Interactions

Angela Matijczak, Shelby E. McDonald

18. Pet Ownership and Persons with Developmental and Physical Disabilities: Impact on Mental and Physical Health

Gretchen K Carlisle, Steph M. Craven

19. Homelessness and Pet Ownership

Leslie Irvine

20. Caregiver Burden in Companion Animal Owners

Mary Beth Spitznagel, Mark D. Carlson, Christopher M Fulkerson

21. HAI and the impact of pet loss

Susan Cohen

22. Animal Hoarding: The Human-Animal Bond Gone Awry

Phil Arkow

23. Co-occurrence of animal abuse and intimate partner violence

Maya Gupta, Shelby E. McDonald

24. Introducing Dogs and Cats into Families

Zarah Hedge, Amanda Kowalski, Madelaine Steevens

25. Veterinary Social Work

Pamela Linden

26. Zoonoses

Jason Stull

27. Working with Each Other: Animal Training to Coexist

Seana Dowling-Guyer

28. Safe interactions with animals

Carri Westgarth, Sara Owczarczak-Garstecka, John Tulloch

29. The case for conservation in the age of the Anthropocene

Eric G Strauss, Carolyn Ristau

30. Ethics, Wellbeing and Wild Lives

William S. Lynn, Liv Baker, Francisco J. Santiago-Avila, Kristin L Stewart

31. Tourism and its impacts on wildlife

Neil Carr, Paul Tully

32. Human-Wildlife Conflict and Interaction

Brian J. MacGowan

33. Oh, the Places I've Seen and The Places We Will Go: A Commentary on the Evolution of AAI

Aubrey H. Fine

34. The Practice of Animal Assisted Interventions: Exploring the Value of AAT/AAA

Taylor Chastain Griffin, Jennifer VonLintel, Erin Trella, Annie Kate Hudson

35. Animals in Education

Nancy R. Gee

36. Around the Arena: Equine-Assisted Services' Foundation in Understanding Human-Horse Interactions

Aviva L Vincent, Robin Peth-Pierce

37. Assistance and Emotional Support Animals

Marguerite E. O'Haire, Leanne O. Nieforth, Clare L. Jensen, Sarah C. Leighton

38. Handler-Dog Interaction: Role of Operational Working Dogs from Past to Present

Melissa Singletary, Sarah Krichbaum, Lucia Lazarowski

39. Working Animals and Human-Animal Interactions

Tamara Tadich, Joao B. Rodrigues

40. Human-Nonhuman Interactions in the Animal Laboratory

Lesley A. Sharp, Garet Lahvis, Amy Robinson-Junker, Larry Carbone

41. Companion animals in times of crisis: Contemporary evidence from the COVID 19 pandemic

Jaume Fatjo, Jonathan Bowen

42. Human-animal interactions in an agricultural and production setting

Jose M. Peralta, Taylor Haefs

43. Farm-based interventions considering One Health - One Welfare

Lena Lidfors, Bente Berget, Karen Thodberg, Anna Lundberg

44. Public perceptions of farm animal welfare: the case of cow-calf separation

Lara V. Sirovica, Marina A.G. von Keyserlingk

45. Human Animal Interactions in Western Art

Laura D. Gelfand

46. Sinister Canines in the Media: Animals in Popular Culture

Margo DeMello

47. I'll Get You... and Your Little Dog Too! Animal Cruelty and Kindness in the Cinema Over the Last Century

Randy Lockwood

48. Animals in our leisure and pleasure: Research for a more species equitable future

Carmel Nottle, Janette Young, Torben Nielsen, Kate Dashper, Zoei Sutton

49. Hunting and the Consumptive Use of Wildlife

Jacob Berl, Joshua T Wise

50. Human Animal Interactions with Non-Domestic Animals in Captive Settings

Petty Grieve, Marcy Souza

Epilogue

Aubrey H. Fine, Megan K. Mueller, Zenithson Y. Ng, Alan M. Beck, and Jose M. Peralta

Glossary

Stefanie Malzyner, Nicole Lorig, Kylie Bell, Morgan Starkweather