S7E9: Dogs’ Health with Jessica Pierce

In this episode Jessica Pierce joins Claudia to explicitly discuss dogs’ health. They discuss everything from end-of-life care for dogs, to breeding practices, and discourses about dogs’ purpose in society. They unfurl some of the overlapping and similar health needs of street- versus pet-dogs and surmise that in general dogs are facing a range of both physical and psychological challenges.  

Date Recorded: 2 September 2024. 

Jessica Pierce is an American bioethicist known for her work in the field of animal ethics and the philosophy of human-animal relationships. She has written a number of books about dogs, including  Who’s A Good Dog? And How to Be A Better Human, A Dog’s World: Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World without People (with Marc Bekoff), and Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets. Her passionate advocacy for the well-being of dogs has sparked global conversations and driven positive change in the way society perceives and treats our canine companions (website). 

Featured: 

• Who’s A Good Dog? And How to Be A Better Human by Jessica Pierce 
• A Dog’s World: Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World without People by Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce
• Dogpedia: A Brief Compendium of Canine Curiositiesby Jessica Pierce
•  Bioethics with Jeff Sebo on The Animal Turn Podcast
• The Lessons of Death, A Conversation with Frank Ostaseski on the Sam Harris Podcast
• A Dog’s Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron
• Stray by Elizabeth Lo.  

Thank you A.P.P.L.E for sponsoring this podcast; ROH Indies for sponsoring this season; Gordon Clarke for the bed music, Jeremy John for the logo, Rebecca Shen for design work, Priyanshu Thapliyal for the Animal Highlight, and Christiaan Mentz for audio editing. 

A.P.P.L.E
Animals in Politics, Law, and Ethics researches how we live in interspecies societies and polities.

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