Selective Reproduction: Social and Temporal Imaginaries for Negotiating the Value of Life in Human and Animal Neonates
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Selective Reproduction : Social and Temporal Imaginaries for Negotiating the Value of Life in Human and Animal Neonates. / Svendsen, Mette N.
In: Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 2, 06.2015, p. 178-195.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Selective Reproduction
T2 - Social and Temporal Imaginaries for Negotiating the Value of Life in Human and Animal Neonates
AU - Svendsen, Mette N.
PY - 2015/6
Y1 - 2015/6
N2 - This article employs a multi-species perspective in investigating how life's worth is negotiated in the field of neonatology in Denmark. It does so by comparing decision-making processes about human infants in the Danish neonatal intensive care unit with those associated with piglets who serve as models for the premature infants in research experiments within neonatology. While the comparison is unusual, the article argues that there are parallels across the decision-making processes that shape the lives and deaths of infants and pigs alike. Collectivities or the lack thereof as well as expectations within linear or predictive time frames are key markers in both sites. Exploring selective reproductive processes across human infants and research piglets can help us uncover aspects of the cultural production of viability that we would not otherwise see or acknowledge.
AB - This article employs a multi-species perspective in investigating how life's worth is negotiated in the field of neonatology in Denmark. It does so by comparing decision-making processes about human infants in the Danish neonatal intensive care unit with those associated with piglets who serve as models for the premature infants in research experiments within neonatology. While the comparison is unusual, the article argues that there are parallels across the decision-making processes that shape the lives and deaths of infants and pigs alike. Collectivities or the lack thereof as well as expectations within linear or predictive time frames are key markers in both sites. Exploring selective reproductive processes across human infants and research piglets can help us uncover aspects of the cultural production of viability that we would not otherwise see or acknowledge.
KW - Denmark
KW - Human-animal relationships
KW - Neonatology
KW - Reproductive selection
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84932136447&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/maq.12149
DO - 10.1111/maq.12149
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 25359420
AN - SCOPUS:84932136447
VL - 29
SP - 178
EP - 195
JO - Medical Anthropology Quarterly
JF - Medical Anthropology Quarterly
SN - 0745-5194
IS - 2
ER -
ID: 143159407