Animal Bodies in the Production of Scientific Knowledge

Modelling Medicine

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5113865
AutoresLynda Birke (University of Chester)
Año2012
Volumen18
Número3-4
Páginas156-178
Fecha de publicación2012-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBody & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1357-034X • E-ISSN: 1460-3632
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1357034x12446379
OpenAlexW2163429312
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas19
Referencias citadas28

What role do nonhuman animals play in the construction of medical knowledge? Animal researchers typically claim that their use has been essential to progress - but just how have animals fitted into the development of biomedicine? In this article, I trace how nonhuman animals, and their body parts, have become incorporated into laboratory processes and places. They have long been designed to fit into scientific procedures - now increasingly so through genetic design. Animals and procedures are closely connected - animals in science are disassembled and reassembled in various ways. Indeed, biomedical knowledge can be said to rest on a large pile of animal bodies and body parts. The process of producing animal body parts to order has implications for how we conceptualize the body (human or nonhuman), which I discuss in the final section

Bioinformatics · Biology · Biomedicine · Body of knowledge · Cognitive science · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Sociology of scientific knowledge · Animal testing and alternatives · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Psychology · Philosophy