1st Edition

Human-Canine Collaboration in Care Doing Diabetes

By Fenella Eason Copyright 2020
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Adopting an anthrozoological perspective to study the participation of non-human animals in regimes of care, this book examines the use of canine scent detection to alert 'hypo-unaware' individuals to symptoms of human chronic illness. Based on ethnographic research and interviews, it focuses on the manner in which trained assistance dogs are able to use their sense of smell to alert human... Read more

1. Multispecies Care in Chronic Illness

2. Anthrozoological and Sociological Perspectives

3. The Canine Sense of Smell and Olfactory Acuity

4. ‘Doing’ Diabetes Type 1

5. Dogs as Biomedical Resources and Health Technologies

6. Symbiotic Practices of Care

7. Endings and ‘Ethical’ Decision-Making

Biography

Fenella Eason is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Exeter Anthrozoology as Symbiotic Ethics (EASE) Working Group at the University of Exeter, UK.

"Fenella Eason’s investigation of how the chronically ill engage with medical alert assistance dogs in their daily lives serves as an example of how research can be both empirically rigorous and compassionate. It is timely, top-notch scholarship. It will inspire research in multispecies ethnography, the sociology of health and illness, anthrozoology, and anthropology." - Leslie Irvine, Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder, USA

"A novel and moving account of multi-species relationships where health and wellbeing is becoming a more-than-human accomplishment. It sets the standard for future work on animal-assisted care of chronic illness." - Hannah Brown, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Durham, UK