| Titre : |
Animals as biotechnology : ethics, sustainability, and critical animal studies |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Richard Twine, Auteur |
| Editeur : |
Londres [Royaume-Uni] : Earthscan |
| Année de publication : |
2010 |
| Collection : |
Science in society |
| Importance : |
VI +222 p. |
| Présentation : |
ill.; couv. ill. en coul. |
| Format : |
24 cm |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-1-84407-830-1 |
| Note générale : |
Notes bibliogr. Index |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Catégories : |
Animaux -- Biotechnologie -- Aspect moral ; Animaux -- Élevage -- Morale ; Animaux -- Protection ; Animaux -- Protection -- Morale ; Animaux domestiques -- Élevage ; Expérimentation animale -- Morale ; Génie génétique animal -- Aspect moral ; Relations homme-animal -- Aspect moral
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| Index. décimale : |
616.027 |
| Résumé : |
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 focuses on ethics, examining critically the dominant paradigms of bioethics and power relations between human and non-human. The second part considers animal biotechnology and political economy, examining commercialisation and regulation. The final part of the book centres on discussions of sustainability, limits and an examination of the prospects for animal ethics if biotechnology becomes part of the dominant agricultural paradigm. Twine concludes by considering whether growing calls to reduce our consumption of meat/dairy products in the face of climate change threats are in fact complicit with an anthropocentric understanding of sustainability and that what is needed is a more fundamental ethical and political questioning of relations and distinctions between humans, animals and nature |
| Note de contenu : |
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: Ch. 1. Undomesticating the Ethical: Whose 'Progress'? -- Multiple Ethics for 'Animals' -- Bioethics and Nonhuman Animals -- Ch. 2. Towards a Critical Bioethics: Bioethics and Interdisciplinarity: Contesting the 'Bio' in Bioethics -- The Question of Complicity -- Ch. 3. Thinking Across Species in the Ethics of 'Enhancement' --
Opening up Animal (Bio)Ethics -- Smart Mice, Schwarzenegger Mice and Fearless Mice -- The Ethical Bypass and the Argument from Precedent -- Is There a Slippery Slope Between Animal and Human 'Enhancement'? -- Towards the Convergence of Medicine and Agriculture? -- PART II. CAPITALIZING ON ANIMALS: Ch. 4. Animal Biotechnology and Regulation -- Regulation and Advocacy -- Historical Context -- Transatlantic Developments in Genomics, GM and Cloning -- Ch. 5. Biopower and the Biotechnological Framing of the Animal Body: Farmed Animals and Biopower -- Biotechnology and Animal Bodies: Metaphor No More? -- Ch. 6 Capitalizing on the Molecular Animal: Beyond Limits? -- A New Species of Capitalization? -- The Knowledge Economy as Enabling Master Narrative -- Livestock Genetics Companies and the Molecular Turn -- PART III. CAPTURING SUSTAINABILITY IN THE GENOME: Ch. 7. Mobilizing the Promise of Sustainability -- Biotechnologies as 'Promising' Practices -- Reinventing Animal Breeding: The Molecularization of Sustainability: Global Animal Consumption and Human Health -- Global Animal Consumption and Climate Change -- Ch. 8. Searching for the 'Win-Win'? Animal Genomics and 'Welfare': Genetic Selection, Unintended Consequences and Welfare -- 'Welfare as Health' and the Idea of the Win-Win -- Genomics and Animal Welfare -- CONCLUSION: From the 'Livestock' 'Revolution' to a Revolution in Human-Animal Relations: Beyond the Livestock Revolution -- Reducing Meat and Dairy Consumption -- Beyond Efficiency -- Notes -- References -- List of Abbreviations -- Index |
Animals as biotechnology : ethics, sustainability, and critical animal studies [texte imprimé] / Richard Twine, Auteur . - Londres (Royaume-Uni) : Earthscan, 2010 . - VI +222 p. : ill.; couv. ill. en coul. ; 24 cm. - ( Science in society) . ISBN : 978-1-84407-830-1 Notes bibliogr. Index Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Catégories : |
Animaux -- Biotechnologie -- Aspect moral ; Animaux -- Élevage -- Morale ; Animaux -- Protection ; Animaux -- Protection -- Morale ; Animaux domestiques -- Élevage ; Expérimentation animale -- Morale ; Génie génétique animal -- Aspect moral ; Relations homme-animal -- Aspect moral
|
| Index. décimale : |
616.027 |
| Résumé : |
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 focuses on ethics, examining critically the dominant paradigms of bioethics and power relations between human and non-human. The second part considers animal biotechnology and political economy, examining commercialisation and regulation. The final part of the book centres on discussions of sustainability, limits and an examination of the prospects for animal ethics if biotechnology becomes part of the dominant agricultural paradigm. Twine concludes by considering whether growing calls to reduce our consumption of meat/dairy products in the face of climate change threats are in fact complicit with an anthropocentric understanding of sustainability and that what is needed is a more fundamental ethical and political questioning of relations and distinctions between humans, animals and nature |
| Note de contenu : |
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: Ch. 1. Undomesticating the Ethical: Whose 'Progress'? -- Multiple Ethics for 'Animals' -- Bioethics and Nonhuman Animals -- Ch. 2. Towards a Critical Bioethics: Bioethics and Interdisciplinarity: Contesting the 'Bio' in Bioethics -- The Question of Complicity -- Ch. 3. Thinking Across Species in the Ethics of 'Enhancement' --
Opening up Animal (Bio)Ethics -- Smart Mice, Schwarzenegger Mice and Fearless Mice -- The Ethical Bypass and the Argument from Precedent -- Is There a Slippery Slope Between Animal and Human 'Enhancement'? -- Towards the Convergence of Medicine and Agriculture? -- PART II. CAPITALIZING ON ANIMALS: Ch. 4. Animal Biotechnology and Regulation -- Regulation and Advocacy -- Historical Context -- Transatlantic Developments in Genomics, GM and Cloning -- Ch. 5. Biopower and the Biotechnological Framing of the Animal Body: Farmed Animals and Biopower -- Biotechnology and Animal Bodies: Metaphor No More? -- Ch. 6 Capitalizing on the Molecular Animal: Beyond Limits? -- A New Species of Capitalization? -- The Knowledge Economy as Enabling Master Narrative -- Livestock Genetics Companies and the Molecular Turn -- PART III. CAPTURING SUSTAINABILITY IN THE GENOME: Ch. 7. Mobilizing the Promise of Sustainability -- Biotechnologies as 'Promising' Practices -- Reinventing Animal Breeding: The Molecularization of Sustainability: Global Animal Consumption and Human Health -- Global Animal Consumption and Climate Change -- Ch. 8. Searching for the 'Win-Win'? Animal Genomics and 'Welfare': Genetic Selection, Unintended Consequences and Welfare -- 'Welfare as Health' and the Idea of the Win-Win -- Genomics and Animal Welfare -- CONCLUSION: From the 'Livestock' 'Revolution' to a Revolution in Human-Animal Relations: Beyond the Livestock Revolution -- Reducing Meat and Dairy Consumption -- Beyond Efficiency -- Notes -- References -- List of Abbreviations -- Index |
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