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Human-Canine Collaboration in Care - Doing Diabetes (Hardcover)
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Human-Canine Collaboration in Care - Doing Diabetes (Hardcover)
Series: Multispecies Encounters
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Adopting an anthrozoological perspective to study the participation
of non-human animals in regimes of care, this book examines the use
of canine scent detection to alert 'hypo-unaware' individuals to
symptoms of human chronic illness. Based on ethnographic research
and interviews, it focuses on the manner in which trained
assistance dogs are able to use their sense of smell to alert human
companions with Type 1 diabetes to imminent hypoglycaemic episodes,
thus reducing the risk of collapse into unconsciousness, coma or,
at worst, death. Through analyses of participant narrations of the
everyday complexities of 'doing' diabetes with the assistance of
medical alert dogs, the author sheds light on the way in which each
human-canine dyad becomes acknowledged as a team of 'one' in
society. Based on the concept of dogs as friends and work
colleagues, as animate instruments and biomedical resources, the
book raises conceptual questions surrounding the acceptable use of
animals and their role within society. As such, this volume will
appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in
human-animal interactions and intersections. It may also appeal to
healthcare practitioners and individuals interested in innovative
multispecies methods of managing chronic illness.
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