Infrahumanisms: Science, Culture, and the Making of Modern Non/Personhood

by Megan H. Glick

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478001518
• ISBN13: 9781478001515
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"