..., it proposes a critical posthumanist orientation to social work as an approach to address the impediments to care experienced by interspecies families. Secondly, it challenges the anthropocentric assumptions that underpin this exclusion of nonhuman family members in human services disciplines such as social...

... Publishing Limited 2004 Pets Companion animals Animal rights Anthropocentrism Volume 24 Number 9 2004 5 Pampered or Enslaved? The Moral Dilemmas of Pets by Leslie Irvine, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado, Boulder Abstract This essay discusses whether the practice of keeping pets...