Selective Reproduction: Social and Temporal Imaginaries for Negotiating the Value of Life in Human and Animal Neonates.

This article employs a multi-species perspective in investigating how life's worth is negotiated in the field of neonatology in Denmark. It does so by comparing decision-making processes about human infants in the Danish neonatal intensive care unit with those associated with piglets who serve as mo...

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Published in:	Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 178 - 196
Main Author:	Svendsen, Mette N.
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Jun2015
Subjects:	Denmark Newborn infants Premature infants Recreation Neonatology Hospital care of newborn infants
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