Megan H GlickInfrahumanisms
Science, Culture, and the Making of Modern Non/personhood
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Toward a Theory of Infrahumanity 1
Part I. Bioexpansionism, 1900s-1930s
1. Brief Histories of Time: Nature, Culture, and the Making of Modern
Childhood 29
2. Ocular Anthropomorphisms:Eugenics and Primatology at the Threshold of
the "Almost Human" 56
Part II. Extraterrestriality, 1940s-1970s
3. On Alien Ground: Extraterrestrial Sightings, Atomic Warfare, and the
Undoing of the Human Body 85
4. Inner and Outer Spaces: Exobiology, Human Genetics, and the
Disembodiment of Corporeal Difference 110
Part III. Interiority, 1980s-2010s
5. Of Sodomy and Cannibalism: Disgust, Dehumanization, and the Rhetorics of
Same-Sex and Cross-Species Contagion 139
6. Everything except the Squeal: Porcine Hybridity in the Obesity Epidemic
and Xenotransplantation Research 159
Conclusion. The Plurality Is Near: Techniques of Symbiotic Re-speciation
196
Notes 209
Bibliography 247
Index 263
