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Near Human - Border Zones of Species, Life, and Belonging (Hardcover)
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Near Human - Border Zones of Species, Life, and Belonging (Hardcover)
Series: Medical Anthropology
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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, whether
they will face a life of severe disability. Drawing on ethnographic
fieldwork carried out on farms, in animal-based experimental
science labs, and in hospitals, Mette N. Svendsen shows that
practices of substitution redirect the question of "what it means"
to be human to "what it takes" to be human. The near humanness of
preterm infants and research piglets becomes an avenue to unravel
how neonatal life is imagined, how societal belonging is evaluated,
and how the Danish welfare state is forged. 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 Denmark. Â
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