title: Animals in surgery--surgery in animals: nature and culture in animal-human relationship and modern surgery.
abstract: AThis paper looks at the entangled histories of animal-human relationship and modem surgery. It starts with the various different roles animals have in surgery--patients, experimental models and organ providers--and analyses where these seemingly contradictory positions of animals come from historically. The analyses is based on the assumption that both the heterogeneous relationships of humans to animals and modern surgery are the results of fundamentally local, contingent and situated developments and not reducible to large-scale social explanations, such as modernization. This change of perspective opens up a new ways of understanding both phenomena as deeply interwoven with the redrawing of the nature-culture divide.
authors.affiliation: Department Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, 3647 Peel Street, Montréal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1X1.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Schlich
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mykhalovskiy
authors.forename: Melanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rock
mesh_terms: D032761:Animal Experimentation / Q000266:history*; D000827:Animal Welfare / Q000266:history; D000818:Animals; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D013522:Surgery, Veterinary / Q000266:history*; D014183:Transplantation, Heterologous / Q000266:history