Pig Mentations
Race and Face in Radiobiology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3132744 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brad Bolman (0000-0002-2657-3670, University of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 112 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 694-716 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Isis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-1753 • E-ISSN: 1545-6994 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/717070 |
| OpenAlex | W4200047694 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 46 |
In the 1950s, Leo K. Bustad and his colleagues at the Hanford “Experimental Animal Farm” began breeding small pigs to study the effects of radiation on human skin. Within a few years, Hanford miniature swine were called a transformative new experimental organism that might replace canines in the laboratory. Weighing around 160 pounds, the same as radiobiology’s “Standard Man,” their skin was white, which was said to make “seeing” radiation damage easier. This essay traces the emergence of the scientific minipig from experimental agriculture and postwar atomic tests to research at the Hormel Institute and Hanford. It situates the pigs as one part of a broader scientific effort to construct a multispecies “composite” human in the twentieth century, exploring how the pig’s lingering significance to dermatology reveals the role of “racializing assemblages” in the production of experimental organisms and scientific facts
Biology · Construct (python library · Environmental ethics · Face (sociological concept · Pedagogy · Race (biology · Radiobiology · Social science · Sociology · Transformative learning · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Medical History and Research · Medicine · Philosophy · Race, Genetics, and Society
The tainted desert
Inclusion
The Nuclear Borderlands
Race and Reification in Science
Fascist Pigs
Suffering For Science
"To "excite the curiosity, and gratify the beholder
On the Animal Turn
How experiments age
Uncertain Exposures and the Privilege of Imperception
Skin, Affect, Aggregation
Atomic Energy Commission
Becoming Jane
What is a Humanized Mouse? Remaking the Species and Spaces of Translational Medicine
The Mid-Century Biophysics Bubble
Reontologising Race
No Scrubs
Political Animals
Pavlov's Physiology Factory
A Race Suicide among the Hogs
Beyond Fact or Fiction
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |