TY - JOUR
T1 - ‘If this was a human …’
T2 - Pets, vets and medicine
AU - Mills, Brett
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2016.
PY - 2016/7/31
Y1 - 2016/7/31
N2 - The television documentary series The Supervet (Channel 4, 2014–) follows the eponymous Noel Fitzpatrick as he carries out experimental surgery on animals seemingly beyond help. This article examines the series in order to explore how this programme depicts animal medicine. Drawing on animal studies approaches, it argues that the programme foregrounds the humans rather than the animals, and, in its focus on surgery, legitimizes humans’ dominance of other species. In doing so, it argues that television’s representational strategies struggle with offering depictions that are not human centred.
AB - The television documentary series The Supervet (Channel 4, 2014–) follows the eponymous Noel Fitzpatrick as he carries out experimental surgery on animals seemingly beyond help. This article examines the series in order to explore how this programme depicts animal medicine. Drawing on animal studies approaches, it argues that the programme foregrounds the humans rather than the animals, and, in its focus on surgery, legitimizes humans’ dominance of other species. In doing so, it argues that television’s representational strategies struggle with offering depictions that are not human centred.
KW - Animal studies
KW - Animals
KW - Biopower
KW - Medicine
KW - Television
KW - Vets
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U2 - 10.1177/1749602016642935
DO - 10.1177/1749602016642935
M3 - Article (journal)
AN - SCOPUS:85018482872
SN - 1749-6020
VL - 11
SP - 244
EP - 256
JO - Critical Studies in Television
JF - Critical Studies in Television
IS - 2
ER -
