On Dog-Technologies and Models: Canine Subjects and Experimental Objects

• In Event: Animals and Technology Around the World, Past and Present 1

Abstract

This paper offers an overview of writing over the last two decades on dogs as experimental animals and model organisms. It asks whether studies of "model organisms" have been sufficiently attentive to the role and place of dogs as and in biotechnologies, but also whether work that treats dogs simply as technologies for experiment underplays the complex relationships of affect and pleasure between researchers and their scientific subjects. To do so, it draws upon case studies of smoking and aging experiments.

Author

• Brad Bolman, Harvard University