Near Human: Border Zones of Species, Life, and Belonging by Svendsen, Mette N.

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

Near Human takes us into the borders of human and animal life. In the animal facility, fragile...
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Author: Mette N. Svendsen
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Near Human: Border Zones of Species, Life, and Belonging by Svendsen, Mette N.

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

$618.79

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

$618.79
Author: Mette N. Svendsen
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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 severe disability. 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 welfare state is forged. 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 belong in Denmark.


Author: Mette N. Svendsen
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 11/12/2021
Pages: 230
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.98w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781978818217

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

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