Animal Disorders

Download or read book Animal Disorders written by Deborah Thompson and published by Black Lawrence Press. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal disorders--those erratic, contradictory, irrational relationships that humans have with their nonhuman compatriots--abound in contemporary U.S. culture. In a series of personal essays, Deborah Thompson relates her own complicity in some of these disordered approaches to nonhuman animals, including such practices as pet-keeping, animal hoarding, animal sacrifice (both religious and scientific), magical thinking, and grieving. The sometimes funny, sometimes poignant essays in this collection deliver dispatches from one representative sufferer of animal disorders.