Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-210) and index.
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.
Summary
Richard Twine places the question of human-animal relations at the heart of sustainability & climate change debates. His argument is shaped by the increasingly biotechnological turn in animal sciences & by work in the emerging field of critical animal studies, which questions the nature of our relationship with other species.
