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Doctoral Dissertations in Human-Animal Studies: News and Views

Doctoral Dissertations in Human-Animal Studies: News and Views Kathleen C. Gerbasi, 1 David C. Anderson, Alexandra M. Gerbasi, and Debbie Coultis Doctoral Dissertations in Human-Animal Studies: News and Views Previous work (Balcombe, 1999) reported a consid- erable increase in the number of post-secondary courses offered on Animals and Society. An alterna- tive view of the current state of Human Animal Studies (HAS) is to go a step further and look at the numbers of HAS doctoral dissertations completed over the past two decades. For that purpose this study compares numbers and characteristics of doc- toral dissertations in HAS from 1980 to 1999. The study uses the decade of the 1980s as a basis of com- parison for the 1990s. Archival searching is an inexact art. We retrieved pertinent dissertations from the databases of OCLC , P sy cINFO , and P roQ uest Di sse rta ti o ns Abs tr acts International (DAI) by using words and phrases, such as “animal-assisted therapy,” “pets therapeutic use,” “bereavement and pets,” and “human-companion animal bond.” The search process Žnds only disser- tations in which the requested phrases (or words in the phrases) appear in the title or abstract of the dis- sertation. While searching DAI for other information, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Society & Animals Brill

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Brill
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© 2002 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1063-1119
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1568-5306
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10.1163/156853002320936782
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Kathleen C. Gerbasi, 1 David C. Anderson, Alexandra M. Gerbasi, and Debbie Coultis Doctoral Dissertations in Human-Animal Studies: News and Views Previous work (Balcombe, 1999) reported a consid- erable increase in the number of post-secondary courses offered on Animals and Society. An alterna- tive view of the current state of Human Animal Studies (HAS) is to go a step further and look at the numbers of HAS doctoral dissertations completed over the past two decades. For that purpose this study compares numbers and characteristics of doc- toral dissertations in HAS from 1980 to 1999. The study uses the decade of the 1980s as a basis of com- parison for the 1990s. Archival searching is an inexact art. We retrieved pertinent dissertations from the databases of OCLC , P sy cINFO , and P roQ uest Di sse rta ti o ns Abs tr acts International (DAI) by using words and phrases, such as “animal-assisted therapy,” “pets therapeutic use,” “bereavement and pets,” and “human-companion animal bond.” The search process Žnds only disser- tations in which the requested phrases (or words in the phrases) appear in the title or abstract of the dis- sertation. While searching DAI for other information,

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Society & Animals – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2002

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