The Moral Ambiguity of Animal-Assisted Therapy and the Conflicts of Medicalizing Another Social Species.

The social relationships between humans and our closest nonhuman species (e.g., dogs, cats, and horses) are complex and subject to change. This complexity contradicts the popular phenomenon of using these animals in medical interventions for mental health (i.e., animal assisted therapy). This articl...

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Publicado en:	Journal of Animal Ethics Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 17 - 32
Autor principal:	Fletcher, Katherine
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	University of Illinois Press Spring2025
Materias:	Animal-assisted therapy Mental health Phenomenology Human-animal relationships Ethical problems Social support Pets Ethnology research
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