Handling xenotransplantation - Ethico-emotional practices in transgressive medical frontier science

PhD defence by Sofie á Rogvi

Assessment Committee

Associate professor Mie Seest Dam, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen (Chairperson)
Professor Mette Terp Høybye, Aarhus University
Dr Jessie Cooper, City St. George's University of London

Supervisors

Associate Professor Anja Marie Bornø Jensen
Professor Klaus Lindgaard Høyer
Head of Department Ayo Juhani Wahlberg

Department

Department of Public Health

Graduate Programme

Medicine, Culture and Society

Place

Building: CSS building 7, Room: 7.0.34, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1353 København K

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Short description of the thesis

Xenotransplantation, the transplantation of organs across species, is often imbued with promises of saving thousands of lives in the future by providing an almost endless supply of organs for transplantation. In her thesis, Sofie á Rogvi has used ethnographic methods to explore recent efforts of translating xenotransplantation science into clinical reality. Moving close to the people who handle humans and animals involved in such endeavors, Sofie's thesis engages with some of the less celebrated efforts of conducting frontier science. Her thesis focuses on the emotional and ethical practices of translating xenotransplantation into the clinic and the involved transgression of boundaries between human and animal, life and death, and research and care.