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Infrahumanisms :

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147800259X

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9781478002598

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147800116X

Erroneous ISBN

1478001518

Erroneous ISBN

9781478001164

Erroneous ISBN

9781478001515

Title Proper

Infrahumanisms :

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[Book]

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science, culture, and the making of modern non/personhood /

First Statement of Responsibility

Megan H. Glick.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Durham :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Duke University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2018.

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©2018

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1 online resource (xi, 271 pages) :

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illustrations

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ANIMA Critical Race Studies Otherwise

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction: toward a theory of infrahumanity -- Brief histories of time: nature, culture, and the making of modern childhood -- Ocular anthropomorphisms: eugenics and primatology at the threshold of the "almost human" -- On alien ground: extraterrestrial sightings, atomic warfare, and the undoing of the human body -- Inner and outer spaces: exobiology, human genetics, and the disembodiment of corporeal difference -- Of sodomy and cannibalism: disgust, dehumanization, and the rhetorics of same-sex and cross-species contagion -- Everything except the squeal: porcine hybridity in the obesity epidemic and xenotransplantation research -- Conclusion: the plurality is near: techniques of symbiotic re-speciation.

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In Infrahumanisms Megan H. Glick considers how conversations surrounding nonhuman life have impacted a broad range of attitudes toward forms of human difference such as race, sexuality, and health. She examines the history of human and nonhuman subjectivity as told through twentieth-century scientific and cultural discourses that include pediatrics, primatology, eugenics, exobiology, and obesity research. Outlining how the category of the human is continuously redefined in relation to the infrahuman--a liminal position of speciation existing between the human and the nonhuman--Glick reads a number of phenomena, from early twentieth-century efforts to define children and higher order primates as liminally human and the postwar cultural fascination with extraterrestrial life to anxieties over AIDS, SARS, and other cross-species diseases. In these cases the efforts to define a universal humanity create the means with which to reinforce notions of human difference and maintain human-nonhuman hierarchies. In foregrounding how evolving definitions of the human reflect shifting attitudes about social inequality, Glick shows how the consideration of nonhuman subjectivities demands a rethinking of long-held truths about biological meaning and difference.

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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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JSTOR

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Proquest Ebook Central

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22573/ctv11qjkpc

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5557369

Title

Infrahumanisms.

International Standard Book Number

9781478001164

Extraterrestrial beings.

Human beings.

Human rights.

Human-animal relationships.

Persons.

Extraterrestrial beings.

Human beings.

Human rights.

Human-animal relationships.

Persons.

PHILOSOPHY-- Movements-- Humanism.

SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects

PHI-- 010000

SCI-- 075000

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Glick, Megan H.,1980-

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20200823031257.0

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[Book]

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