Entanglements in health and wellbeing: working with model organisms in biomedicine and bioscience

Friese, Carrie ORCID: 0000-0001-7144-8046 and Latimer, Joanna (2019) Entanglements in health and wellbeing: working with model organisms in biomedicine and bioscience. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 33 (1). pp. 120-137. ISSN 0745-5194

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Abstract

Drawing on collaborative ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores how human health becomes entangled with that of model organisms in day-to-day biomedical science. Social science scholarship on modeling has explored either how specific models impact and shape our knowledge of human disease or how animal technicians and scientists affect laboratory animals. This article extends this relational approach by asking how embodied and institutional care practices for model organisms affect the health and well-being of animal technicians and scientists. We focus on two interspecies bodily experiences: pathogenic exchange and stress. We then explore enrichment as a strategy for producing health and well-being across species. We suggest that relations of care form a crucial part of biomedical knowledge production. Not only does care figure in the shaping of model organisms; care for technicians and scientists also plays a role in bioscientific knowledge production. We conclude by proposing an interspecies approach to occupational health.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journ...
Additional Information:	© 2091 The Authors
Divisions:	Sociology
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology Q Science > Q Science (General) R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Date Deposited:	25 Jun 2018 13:07
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2024 21:40
Projects:	103320/Z/13/Z
Funders:	Wellcome Trust
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/88587

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