Prelude I: Frogs / Simon Rich
Beginning with Dignity / Melanie Challenger
Part I. Defining the Concept. What is Dignity?
Prelude II: 33,000 Birds / Jonathan Safran Foer
1. A Place for Animals? Rethinking the history of human dignity / Remy Debes
2. Philosophical Approaches to Dignity, and their Applicability to Non-human Animals / Suzanne Killmister
Part II. Approaches to Dignity. What are the Grounds for Animal Dignity?
Prelude III: Ways of Seeing an Octopus / Sy Montgomery
3. On Standing / Harriet Ritvo
4. Wild Dignity / Lori Gruen
5. Dignity in Dogs / Alexandra Horowitz
6. The Heart of the Scorpion / Kathleen Dean Moore
7. 'An Old Joy' : Ways of Attending to Dignity / Deborah Slicer
8. Dignity in their World / Danielle Celermajer
Part III. Forms of Dignity. Are There Separate Cultural Conceptions Of Animal Dignity?
Prelude IV: Lead Me into Thy Nest / Nelson Bukamba
9. Killing Dogs in Zambia: Prospects for Ubuntu / Julius Kapembwa
10. Let all Beings Be happy: Dignity and Prana, the vital force in Indian thought / Meera Baindur
11. Two-Eyed Seeing: Animal dignity through Indigenous and Western lenses / Cristina Eisenberg and Michael Paul Nelson
12. Dignity in Non-humans: A theological perspective / Michael Reiss
Part IV. Dignity in Practice. What Work Can Animal Dignity Do?
Prelude V: The Last Safe Habitat / Craig Santos Perez
13. Extending the Capabilities Approach to Non-Human Animals / Martha Nussbaum
14. Beyond Animal Welfare : Respecting Animal Dignity in Continental Law / Eva Bernet Kempers
15. Animal Dignity as More-Than-Welfarism / Visa Kurki
16. Dignity: A Concept for All Species / Lori Marino
17. Four Legs Good, Three Legs Bad? The Aesthetics of Animal Dignity / Samantha Hurn
18. Looking Up to Animals and Other Beings: What the fishes taught us / Becca Franks, Monica Gagliano, Barbara Smuts and Christine Webb
19. Dignity, Respect and the Education of Biologists / David George Haskell
Afterthoughts
Prelude VI: Characteristics of Life / Camille Dungy
Ways Forward / Melanie Challenger.