Near Human : : Border Zones of Species, Life, and Belonging / / Mette N. Svendsen.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Medical Anthropology
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (262 p.) :; 14 b-w images |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- 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