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100% Pure Pigs: New Zealand And The Cultivation Of Pure Auckland Island Pigs For Xenotransplantation, Rachel Carr Jan 2016

100% Pure Pigs: New Zealand And The Cultivation Of Pure Auckland Island Pigs For Xenotransplantation, Rachel Carr

Animal Studies Journal

In 2008, the New Zealand based company Living Cell Technologies (LCT) was granted approval for human clinical trials of animal-to-human transplantation (xenotransplantation) in New Zealand. This was one of the first human clinical trials to go ahead globally following regulatory tightening in the 1990s due to concerns over disease transmission. In response to these disease concerns LCT is using special pigs, isolated on Auckland Island for 200 years and deemed to be the cleanest in the world. This article explores the way that LCT leverages off New Zealand national narratives of purity to market the Auckland Island pigs as safe …


The Dale Spender Collection At The Women's College, University Of Sydney, Olivia Murphy Oct 2015

The Dale Spender Collection At The Women's College, University Of Sydney, Olivia Murphy

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830

Notice of the opening of the Dale Spender collection of books relating to feminism; Australian women's writing; and women's writing in English of the long nineteenth century.


A Feminist Case For Leadership, Amanda Sinclair Nov 2014

A Feminist Case For Leadership, Amanda Sinclair

Amanda Sinclair

No abstract provided.


“Fellowing” Women: Sydney Women Writers And The Organisational Impulse, Jane Hunt Dec 2003

“Fellowing” Women: Sydney Women Writers And The Organisational Impulse, Jane Hunt

Jane Hunt

No abstract provided.