Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out on farms, in animal-based experimental science, and in hospitals, Mette Svendsen redirects the question of ""what it means"" to be human to ""what it takes"" to be human and to forge a nation.
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out on farms, in animal-based experimental science, and in hospitals, Mette Svendsen redirects the question of ""what it means"" to be human to ""what it takes"" to be human and to forge a nation.
METTE N. SVENDSEN is a professor of medical anthropology at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.
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List of Illustrations Foreword by Lenore Manderson 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
List of Illustrations Foreword by Lenore Manderson 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
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