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"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, will go on to lead a life of grave disability. Drawing...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Svendsen, Mette N. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
Colección:Medical anthropology (New Brunswick, N.J.)
Temas:
Medical anthropology > Denmark.
Animal experimentation > Moral and ethical aspects > Denmark.
Pork industry and trade > Denmark.
Expérimentation animale > Aspect moral > Danemark.
Porc (Viande) > Industrie > Danemark.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Animal experimentation > Moral and ethical aspects
Medical anthropology
Pork industry and trade
Denmark
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Illustrations
  • Series foreword
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • Substitution
  • Multi-species ethnography
  • The anthropology of morality
  • Belonging
  • Pigs and people in Denmark
  • Collaborative research
  • The organization of the book
  • Feeding : cows, pigs, and humans in interspecies kinship
  • Interspecies kinship
  • Danish pig breeding and pork production
  • Collecting cow colostrum at the farm
  • Feeding piglets in the animal facility
  • Feeding infants in the NICU
  • Cow colostrum for NICU infants
  • Making cow colostrum bioavailable
  • Killing : Pigs as Sacrificeable Beings
  • Approaching life, suffering and death in experimental practices
  • Getting the piglets up and running
  • Caring for piglets
  • Moral perils
  • Granting death
  • Turning piglets into samples
  • Becoming and ceasing to be killable
  • The temporal horizons of sacrifice
  • Treating : infants at the margins of life
  • Biological and biographical life in the NICU
  • Kinship and the fabrication of a biographical life
  • Social relations : placing the child in family and welfare state
  • Time: imagining the future
  • Space : tracing lives through death
  • Resource discussions in the NICU
  • Selective reproductive politics in Denmark
  • Juxtaposing human and pig, past and present
  • Metabolizing : humans and nonhumans in a global field
  • Cow colostrum for China
  • Unsettled boundaries
  • Settled boundaries for pigs
  • Settled boundaries for humans
  • Porkpolitics
  • Metabolizing life
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgements.

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