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Animals as Biotechnology Ethics, Sustainability and Critical Animal Studies

By: Richard Twine
224 pages, figs
Publisher: Earthscan
Animals as Biotechnology
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  • Animals as Biotechnology ISBN: 9781844078301 Hardback Aug 2010 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 1 week
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About this book

In this volume, the author, a sociologist, 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 the 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 the relations with other animals.

Contents

Introduction: From the Sciences of Meat to Critical Animal Studies##
Part I: The Animal and the Ethical
1. Undomesticating the Ethical####
2. Toward a Critical Bioethics ####
3. Thinking across Species in the Ethics of 'Enhancement' Part II: Capitalizing on Animals
4. Animal Biotechnology and Regulation ### 5. Biopower and the Biotechnological Framing of the Animal Body 6. Capitalizing on the Molecular Animal: Beyond Limits? ## Part III: Capturing Sustainability in the Genome 7. Mobilizing the Promise of Sustainability ### 8. Searching for the 'Win-Win'? Animal Genomics and 'Welfare' Conclusion: From the Livestock Revolution to a Revolution in Human/Animal Relations

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Biography

Richard Twine is a Senior Research Associate at Cesagen (ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics), Lancaster University, UK.
By: Richard Twine
224 pages, figs
Publisher: Earthscan
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'Twine's Animals as Biotechnology adds a much needed perspective to debates surrounding animal life, ethics, capitalism, and emerging animal biotechnologies. Combining cutting-edge interdisciplinary frameworks from critical animal studies with in-depth analyses of the economics and science behind the increasing commodification and production of animals for human consumption, Twine makes a compelling case for the development of a more generous, less anthropocentric approach in our myriad relations with the other-than-human world.' Dr. Matthew Calarco, Associate Professor of Philosophy, California State University at Fullerton, Author of Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida 'Richard Twine weaves deftly between 'molecularisation' of animals in biotechnology and growing sensibilities about human-animal relationships. Tensions between these opposing strands raise many questions about what animal science can promise, and - importantly - about implications for sustainability and how we treat other animals who share this earth. Rethinking relationships with other animals is critical for all our futures.' Professor Lynda Birke, University of Chester, UK
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