Bioethicist, Colorado
Jessica Pierce is a bioethicist whose work focuses on human-animal relationships and interconnections between ecosystems and health. She is a faculty affiliate with the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Her newest book, Who’s a Good Dog? And How To Be a Better Human (University of Chicago Press) will be out next fall. Other books include A Dog’s World (2021) and Unleashing Your Dog (2019), with Marc Bekoff, and Run, Spot, Run (2016). She writes a blog called All Dogs Go to Heaven for Psychology Today. The Colorado mountains are home base.
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Animals and humans
Where went the wolf?
The very attributes that make small dogs cute and popular are slowly strangling their ability to function as real animals
Jessica Pierce
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Animals and humans
The posthuman dog
If humans were to disappear from the face of the Earth, what might dogs become? And would they be better off without us?
Jessica Pierce