Near Human - Border Zones of Species, Life, and Belonging

Near Human is an ethnography of research piglets in biomedical experiments and premature human infants in clinical care in Denmark. Drawing on fieldwork carried out on farms, in animal-based science labs, and in hospitals, Mette N. Svendsen redirects the question of "what it means" to be human to "what it takes" to be human and to forge a nation.

Sommario

List of Illustrations 

Foreword by Lenore Manderson 

Prologue 

Introduction 

1 Feeding: Cows, Pigs, and Humans

in Interspecies Kinship 

2 Killing: Pigs as Sacrificeable Beings 

3 Treating: Infants at the Margins of Life 

4 Metabolizing: Humans and Nonhumans in a Global Field 

Epilogue 

Acknowledgments

Notes 

References 

Index 

Info autore

METTE N. SVENDSEN is a professor of medical anthropology at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

 

Riassunto

Near Human is an ethnography of research piglets in biomedical experiments and premature human infants in clinical care in Denmark. Drawing on fieldwork carried out on farms, in animal-based science labs, and in hospitals, Mette N. Svendsen redirects the question of "what it means" to be human to "what it takes" to be human and to forge a nation.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: SVENDSEN, Mette N Svendsen, Mette N. Svendsen
• Editore: Rutgers University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781978818224
• ISBN: 978-1-978818-22-4
• Pagine: 230
• Serie: Medical Anthropology
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Natura > Guide naturalistiche; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Tematiche generali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Pedagogia sociale, assistenza sociale