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Species of Contagion examines the political and social implications
of xenotransplantation for bodies, nations, and species. Scientists
are demonstrating a renewed interest in developing transplants for
humans with tissues from pigs, with the aid of genetic engineering
techniques, immunosuppressant drugs, and novel cellular
technologies. Yet, some argue that these transspecies promiscuities
threaten to enable new viruses to emerge in human populations.
Drawing on the later works of Foucault, this book analyses
contemporary power relations in animal-to-human transplantation
research, ranging across governmental regulation, scientific
understandings of infectious disease, and animal ethics. While many
xenotransplantation practices resonate with a security approach
that renders uncertainty an inherent condition of life and
encourages adaptation across species boundaries, government
regulation and industry also reinscribe sovereign boundaries of
bodies, species, and nations. Species of Contagion illustrates the
variation in the cultural and scientific imaginaries that
governments and industry bring to bear on the problematic of
xenotransplantation.
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