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Aging is not only reserved for humans. Similarly, how humans age is often a process in which other-than-humans – be it other species or technology – become entangled or carved out. The contributions to this edited volume open a conversation about how aging is always a hybrid, more-than-human process.
List of contents
Foreword: A Book to Think and Become With
JAY SOKOLOVSKY
Introduction: Aging in More-Than-Human Companionship
CRISTINA DOUGLAS AND ANDREW WHITEHOUSE
Part I Humans Aging in More-Than-Human Companionship
1 Caring Canines: Images of “Home” in Continuing Care
ARDRA COLE AND SUSAN MACLEOD
2 Becoming Old with a Dog: Human-Animal Entanglements in Later-Life Transitions
NETE SCHWENNESEN AND DANIEL LÓPEZ GÓMEZ
3 Of Dogs, Humans, and Lives Worth Living: Thinking with Dogs about Later Life, Living with Dementia, and More-Than-Human Companionship
CRISTINA DOUGL AS
4 Aging with Companion Animals: More-Than-Human Agency, Digital and Sensory Intimacies, and Care
INGRID RICHARDSON AND LARISSA HJORTH
5 Baby Seals and Armless Robots: Is This What Care in Later Life Is Made Of?
CATHRINE DEGNEN AND KATIE BRITTAIN
6 How to Be a Good Robot? Human–Nonhuman Play in Dementia Care
RUUD HENDRIKS AND IKE KAMPHOF
Part II Other-Than-Humans Aging in Human Companionship
7 The Invisibility of the Aging Laboratory Animal
LESLEY A . SHARP
8 Then There Were 3, 2, 1, 0: Grieving with and for a Murine Family
SAMANTHA HURN
9 Posthuman Professionalism: Interspecies Entanglements and Clinical End of Life Care
VANESSA ASHALL, JOANNA L AT IMER, AND CARRIE FRIESE
Afterword: On Old Human and Other Animal Characters
SUSAN McHUGH
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Index
About the author
CRISTINA DOUGLAS is a medical anthropologist and a PhD candidate in social/medical anthropology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.
ANDREW WHITEHOUSE is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. He is a coeditor of
Landscapes beyond Land: Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives.
JAY SOKOLOVSKY is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. He is the editor of
The Cultural Context of Aging, 4th edition, and author of
Indigenous Mexico Engages the 21st Century: A Multimedia-Enabled Text.SUSAN McHUGH is a professor of English at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. She is the author of
Love in a Time of Slaughters: Human-Animal Stories against Extinction and Genocide and
Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines.
Summary
Aging is not only reserved for humans. Similarly, how humans age is often a process in which other-than-humans – be it other species or technology – become entangled or carved out. The contributions to this edited volume open a conversation about how aging is always a hybrid, more-than-human process.
