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What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions?

Vinciane Despret

Print publication date: 2016

Print ISBN-13: 9780816692378

Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: January 2017

DOI: 10.5749/minnesota/9780816692378.001.0001

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For Xenografts

For Xenografts

Can one live with the heart of a pig?

Chapter:
(p.185) X For Xenografts
Source:
What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions?
Author(s):

Vinciane Despret

, Brett Buchanan
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press
DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816692378.003.0024

This chapter explores the interspecies links and transactions that constitute a singular life, from cross-species organ transplants to bacterial symbiosis and its life-giving gene transfers. The author draws on Donna haraway, Lynn Margulis, and Dorian Sagan to argue that the fundamental condition of being human is always a being with—and within—others of different species.

Keywords:   gift, interspecies, organ donation, symbiosis, being, Donna Haraway, Lynn Margulis, Dorian Sagan

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