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Animals as biotechnology : ethics, sustainability and critical animal studies /

by Twine, Richard.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Science in society series: Publisher: Washington, DC : Earthscan, c2010Description: vi, 222 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781844078301 (hbk.).Subject(s): Animal biotechnology -- Moral and ethical aspects | Animal genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects | Food animals -- Moral and ethical aspects | Human-animal relationships -- Moral and ethical aspects
Contents:
Introduction : from the sciences of meat to critical animal studies -- Undomesticating the ethical -- Towards a critical bioethics -- Thinking across species in the ethics of "enhancement" -- Animal biotechnology and regulation -- Biopower and the biotechnological framing of the animal body -- Capitalizing on the molecular animal : beyond limits? -- Mobilizing the promise of sustainability -- 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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Includes bibliographical references [p. 177-210] and index.

Introduction : from the sciences of meat to critical animal studies -- Undomesticating the ethical -- Towards a critical bioethics -- Thinking across species in the ethics of "enhancement" -- Animal biotechnology and regulation -- Biopower and the biotechnological framing of the animal body -- Capitalizing on the molecular animal : beyond limits? -- Mobilizing the promise of sustainability -- 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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