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Infrahumanisms : science, culture, and the making of modern non/personhood /
In Infrahumanisms Megan H. Glick considers how conversations surrounding nonhuman life have impacted a broad range of attitudes toward forms of human difference such as race, sexuality, and health. She examines the history of human and nonhuman subjectivity as told through twentieth-century scientif...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2018.
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| Series: | ANIMA (Duke University Press)
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: toward a theory of infrahumanity
- Brief histories of time: nature, culture, and the making of modern childhood
- Ocular anthropomorphisms: eugenics and primatology at the threshold of the "almost human"
- On alien ground: extraterrestrial sightings, atomic warfare, and the undoing of the human body
- Inner and outer spaces: exobiology, human genetics, and the disembodiment of corporeal difference
- Of sodomy and cannibalism: disgust, dehumanization, and the rhetorics of same-sex and cross-species contagion
- Everything except the squeal: porcine hybridity in the obesity epidemic and xenotransplantation research
- Conclusion: the plurality is near: techniques of symbiotic re-speciation.