Mette N Svendsen

Near Human

Border Zones of Species, Life, and Belonging

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781978818224
• ISBN-10: 197881822X
• Artikelnr.: 61406444

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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