Animals as biotechnology : ethics, sustainability and critical animal studies
Title:
Animals as biotechnology : ethics, sustainability and critical animal studies
Author:
Twine, Richard.
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9781849776356
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Publication Information:
London ; Washington, DC : Earthscan, 2010.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (vi, 222 pages)
Contents:
Acknowledgements; Introduction: From the Sciences of Meat to Critical Animal Studies; Sociology and Animal Studies; Political Engagement? Burawoy's Sociology and Critical Animal Studies; Concepts for Critical Animal Studies: Intersectionality and Posthumanism; Animals as Biotechnology; Part I The Animal and the Ethical; Chapter 1 Undomesticating the Ethical; Chapter 2 Towards a Critical Bioethics; Chapter 3 Thinking Across Species in the Ethics of 'Enhancement'; Part II Capitalizing on Animals; Chapter 4 Animal Biotechnology and Regulation.
Abstract:
In Animals as Biotechnology sociologist Richard Twine places the question of human/animal relations at the heart of sustainability and climate change debates. The book is shaped by the emergence of two contradictory trends within our approach to nonhuman animals: the biotechnological turn in animal sciences, which aims to increase the efficiency and profitability of meat and dairy production; and the emerging field of critical animal studies - mostly in the humanities and social sciences - which works to question the nature of our relations with other animals. The first part of the book focuse.
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