Near Human : Border Zones of Species, Life, and Belonging, Hardcover by Svend...

Description: Near Human : Border Zones of Species, Life, and Belonging, Hardcover by Svendsen, Mette N., ISBN 197881822X, ISBN-13 9781978818224, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "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 on ethnographic fieldwork carried out on farms, in animal-based experimental science, 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. The near humanness of preterm infants and research piglets becomes an avenue to unravel how neonatal life is imagined, authenticated, extended or eroded, and how societal belonging is evaluated, confirmed or ended when beings are at the margins of life and death. 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 a nation"--

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

Number of Pages: 230 Pages

Language: English

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

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Subject: Ethics, Anthropology / General, Disease & Health Issues, Animal Rights

Publication Year: 2021

Item Height: 0.7 in

Item Weight: 16 Oz

Type: Textbook

Item Length: 9 in

Author: Mette N. Svendsen

Subject Area: Nature, Social Science, Medical

Series: Medical Anthropology Ser.

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Hardcover