Making Babies with Cows

Note: The conceit of section one of this essay is partial role reversal. How would a doctor who was a cow explain to yearling interns how to breed humans? This is what a cow might sound like if she thought about humans the ways that human purebred livestock breeders think about cows. Section two swi...

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Published inLiving with Animals pp. 142 - 156
Main Author Calvert, Scout
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press 15.09.2018
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Summary:Note: The conceit of section one of this essay is partial role reversal. How would a doctor who was a cow explain to yearling interns how to breed humans? This is what a cow might sound like if she thought about humans the ways that human purebred livestock breeders think about cows. Section two switches back to a human perspective and treats the extensive interventions into cattle reproduction as the mundane options that they have become for many farmers. This essay highlights the traffic of reproductive technologies across the porous human-bovine species boundary. So, you want to get a human
ISBN:9781501724824
1501724827
DOI:10.7591/9781501724831-013