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

Near Human: Border Zones of Species, Life, and Belonging, 1, 2021 is a comprehensive biology reference published by Other Publisher. Description By Mette N. Svendsen Near Human takes us into the borders of human and animal life.

Key Features

- Near Human takes us into the borders of human and animal life
- In the animal facility, fragile piglets substitute for humans who cannot be experimented on
- In the neonatal intensive care unit, extremely premature infants prompt questions about whether they are too fragile to save or, if they survive, whether they will face a life of…
- Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out on farms, in animal-based experimental science labs, and in hospitals, Mette N
- Svendsen shows that practices of substitution redirect the question of "what it means" to be human to "what it takes" to be human
- The near humanness of preterm infants and research piglets becomes an avenue to unravel how neonatal life is imagined, how societal belonging is evaluated, and how the Danish…
- This courageous multi-sited and multi-species approach cracks open the complex ethical field of valuating life and making different kinds of pigs and different kinds of humans…

Product Details

Publisher: Other Publisher
Edition: 1
Published Year: 2021
Format: Publisher PDF
File Size: 14.1 MB
ISBN: 978-1978818217