ISBN:
9781317119449
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (211 pages)
Series Statement:
Multispecies Encounters
Parallel Title:
Print version Asdal, Kristin Humans, Animals and Biopolitics : The more-than-human condition
DDC:
304.27
Abstract:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: the 'more-than-human' condition: sentient creatures and versions of biopolitics -- 2 The practices of fishy sentience -- 3 Making pig research biographies: names and numbers -- 4 Modifying the biopolitical collective: the law as a moral technology -- 5 Pastorale: sheep traffic in modern trauma surgery -- 6 The measure of the disease: the pathological animal experiment in Robert Koch's medical bacteriology -- 7 Knowing sentient subjects: humane experimental technique and the constitution of care and knowledge in laboratory animal science -- 8 One health, many species: towards a multispecies investigation of bird flu -- 9 Sensory biopolitics: knowing birds and a politics of life -- 10 Loving camels, sacrificing sheep, slaughtering gazelles: human-animal relations in contemporary desert fiction -- Index
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