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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 37–56.
Published: 01 May 2016
... to choreograph an ontological state. Conducting an outmoded pregnancy test with live Xenopus frogs, we probed the contours of this gap. As we took an antiquated bioassay out of medical archives, we conducted a performative experiment—an intervention that blurred the boundaries between performance art, science...
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Published: 01 May 2016
Figure 3. The negative pee-stick tests used by the couple after their performance of the Xenopus pregnancy test.
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Published: 01 May 2016
Figure 1. Images from a 1938 article in the British Medical Journal by Edward R. Elkan that helped popularize the Xenopus pregnancy test among physicians.
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 174–179.
Published: 01 May 2019
... or alter human metabolism? This selection of poems is an attempt to work within a necessarily expanded notion of what constitutes reading and writing in the Anthropocene. Incorporating the results of biomonitoring tests for phthalates on the author’s own urine, the poems consider the “metabolic poetics...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 341–360.
Published: 01 July 2022
... to do with gaslighting, misogyny, and abuse, when with a supportive tone he told my mother I had a large uterus, a godsend for pregnancy. With the knowledge I bear today, the man possibly saw a uterus affected by adenomyosis, which was only diagnosed twenty-one years later. During teenage life, I...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 May 2016
... us into the worlds of sheep and shepherds, of stones, worms, salmon, and forest-devouring beetles, of viruses and their elephants, of seals, crows, and lava flows in Hawai‘i, and of frogs as pregnancy tests and possible agents of pathogenic fungal spread. Each contribution practices particular modes...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 321–345.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and affect one another. They are subjugated and made sense of through human and technological modes of signification yet oblivious to these meanings; 115 simultaneously as the actual living thing in the test tube, and/or as the virtual nonliving thing signified as a potentiality through genetic code...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 661–679.
Published: 01 November 2022
.... 18 His story has been well rehearsed. In 1998, Hayes was employed by Swiss company Syngenta to examine the effects of its herbicide atrazine on frogs. Atrazine is the second most-used herbicide in the United States after Monsanto’s Roundup (glyphosate). 19 Through tests on the African clawed...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 57–76.
Published: 01 May 2016
... A number of clinical trials have been undertaken first to test the safety of reintroducing helminths into human patients suffering particular autoimmune conditions and then to explore its effects. These trials have shown that these patients can host a modest number of worms with no significant side effects...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 373–401.
Published: 01 November 2019
... sense of time Even before the newborn infant takes his or her first gasps of air, he or she has settled into recurring patterns of rest and activity. In the last stages of pregnancy, an expectant woman easily detects fetal movements that may include twists, turns, and kicks, and such activities do...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 699–717.
Published: 01 November 2022
... love: using various practice-based methods, a group of about twenty of us was down on the shores of this postindustrial wetland to explore the queer connections between toxic waters, bodies, and our myriad desires. Since we were testing various water samples as part of our workshop activities anyway...
