Modifying the Biopolitical Collective

Asdal, Kristin; Druglitrø, Tone

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“…One of the aims of the Association is the genetic improvement of the Mediterranean Italian buffalo with the use of the Herd Book of the buffalo species, research, morphological evaluation (Figure 2) and dissemination. ANASB and veterinary researchers have created a sophisticated evaluation method, the Aggregate Selection Index for the Italian Mediterranean Buffalo (in Italian: Indice di Selezione aggregato per la Bufala Mediterranea Italiana—IBMI), for farmers to select the fittest buffaloes for reproduction, based almost exclusively on ‘economical values’ (Asdal & Druglitrø, 2017, p. 78). Among other elements, the evaluation checklist consists of the estimation of the annual milk yield of the animals and their physical characteristics such as heel and chest height, the shape and the direction of teats (fieldnotes, ANASB meeting with local farmers in Priverno, Italy, 2019).…”

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Biosecurity and more‐than‐human political economy: Veterinary interventions as productive economic forces in the ‘mozzarella landscape’ in Italy

Cseke

2022

Trans Inst British Geog

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The growing pressure to increase food production (especially under capitalist market conditions) has generated the intensification of production in animal agriculture. This has brought on an inevitable specialisation (pork, beef and dairy production) due to the strong economic rationale in factory farming. Intensive animal agriculture, however, has created various socio-ecological risks (Okamoto et al., 2019) and consumer concerns. Veterinary expertise has a vital role in managing these risks and concerns through animal health and food safety regulations, inspection, standardisation and

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Biosecurity and more‐than‐human political economy: Veterinary interventions as productive economic forces in the ‘mozzarella landscape’ in Italy

Cseke

2022

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“…But is this the case? More recent studies of laboratory animals show how these creatures are in fact highly valued, even though the valuation of animals is based on the successful choreography of a range of different concerns, including concerns for the workability of animals as tools and concerns for animal welfare and integrity (Tresselt 2011;Asdal and Druglitrø 2016;Pihl 2016). The point is that the instrumental use of animals is also a means of including animals in the biopolitical collective and that it is in relation that animals (and humans) are ascribed value.…”

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“Skilled Care” and the Making of Good Science

Druglitrø

2017

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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This article investigates the construction of laboratory animal science as a version of ''good science.'' In the 1950s, a transnational community of scientists initiated large-scale standardization of animals for biomedicine, which included the standardization of care of laboratory animals as well as the development of guidelines and regulations on laboratory animal use. The article traces these developments and investigates how the standardization work took part in enacting laboratory animals as compound objects of care-and laboratory animal science as being an intrinsically ethical practice-as good science. Importantly, the analysis shows how technological development is inextricably accompanied by ethics, as it is the result of complex social organization involving multiple ethical commitments. By investigating the development of laboratory animal science historically, it is possible to tease out how values, norms, and standards have been made integral to specific practices in the first place and how they have developed and been sustained over time. The article contributes to current concerns in science and technology studies about how life is made, valued, and ordered at the intersection of science and society and in biomedicine,

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“…A recent volume on the history of Norwegian professions includes veterinarians as one of 34 professions (Asdal & Druglitrø, 2014). The authors explore the process of gaining jurisdiction for the profession, inspired by Andrew Abbot's work (1988), and they include institutional factors in their history.…”

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“…Malm (1899) saw the importance of ensuring the inspection of animals slated for export to avoid the spread of disease. Moreover, as Asdal and Druglitrø (2014) note, by forbidding the importation of Swedish live animals when infectious animal diseases threatened, Malm acted on behalf of the state authorities by protecting the borders during the process of nation building. Securing the health of the livestock was underlined as being of great interest to farmers.…”

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“…In addition to public health activity, the veterinary administration was important in the prevention of animal disease. As Asdal and Druglitrø (2014) underline, the veterinary authorities banned the importation of live cattle from Sweden in a period of threatening infectious cattle disease, which was important for the nation-state as it was seen to be connected to Norwegian efforts to gain independence from Sweden in the years up to 1905. The fact that veterinarians were working to prevent animal diseases by hygienic efforts would have supported the economic interests in the agenda of the agricultural Directorate, to use the concepts discussed by Asdal (2006).…”

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Knowledge sharing is an essential part of interprofessional practice and will be even more important in the future in regard to the opportunities and challenges in practices for delivering safe and effective healthcare. The aim of this ethnographic study was to explore how professional knowledge can be shared in an interprofessional team at a spinal cord injury rehabilitation unit. A sociomaterial perspective on practice was used to analyse the data, and by theorizing upon this, we captured different aspects of interprofessional collaboration in health care. The findings illuminate how knowledge emerges and is shared between professionals, and how it passes along as chain of actions between professionals, in various ways. The findings offer a novel perspective on how interprofessional collaboration as a practice, involving ongoing learning, unfolds. This reveals the mechanisms by which different forms of expertise are mobilized between professions as health care work.

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Modifying the Biopolitical Collective

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Biosecurity and more‐than‐human political economy: Veterinary interventions as productive economic forces in the ‘mozzarella landscape’ in Italy

Biosecurity and more‐than‐human political economy: Veterinary interventions as productive economic forces in the ‘mozzarella landscape’ in Italy

“Skilled Care” and the Making of Good Science

Vol 7, No 2 (2017)

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