TITLE

All in the family?

AUTHOR(S)

Hardigg, Viva

PUB. DATE

November 1993

SOURCE

U.S. News & World Report;11/1/93, Vol. 115 Issue 17, p69

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Discusses scientists' aversion to anthropomorphism and the call for a re-evaluation of one of science's most stringent commandments. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas' book `The Hidden Life of Dogs'; J.S. Kennedy's book `The New Anthropomorphism' in which he railed against what he considered an anti-intellectual trend in the modern academy; What resistance to the idea of an emotional cousinship between man and beast may reveal.

ACCESSION #

9310287527

 

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