Kristin Asdal is Professor of Science, Technology and Culture at TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo, Norway.

Tone Druglitrø is Postdoctoral Fellow at TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo, Norway.

Steve Hinchliffe is Professor of Geography at the Department of Geography, University of Exeter, UK.

1. Introduction: The 'More Than Human' Condition: Sentient Creatures and Versions of Biopolitics

Kristin Asdal, Tone Druglitrø and Steve Hinchliffe

2. The Practice of Fishy Sentience

John Law and Marianne Lien

3. Making Pig Research Biographies: Names and Numbers

Vibeke Pihl

4. Modifying the Biopolitical Collective: The Law as a Moral Technology

Kristin Asdal and Tone Druglitrø

5. Pastorale: Sheep Traffic in Modern Trauma Surgery

Martina Schlünder

6. The Measure of the Disease: The Pathological Animal Experiment in Robert Koch's Medical Bacteriology

Christoph Gradmann

7. Knowing Sentient Subjects: Humane Experimental Technique and the Constitution of Care and Knowledge in Laboratory Animal Science

Robert G. W. Kirk

8. One Health, Many Species: Towards a Multispecies Investigation of Bird Flu

Natalie Porter

9. Sensory Biopolitics: Knowing Birds and a Politics of Life

Steve Hinchliffe

10. Loving Camels, Sacrificing Sheep, Slaughtering Gazelles: Human-Animal Relations in Contemporary Desert Fiction

Susan McHugh

By bringing together historically-oriented approaches and contemporary ethnographies which engage with science and technology studies (STS), this book reflects the multi-sited, multi-species and multiple ways in which lives have been assembled, disassembled, practised, policed and politicized. The book not only asks how control and knowledge are and have been extended over life, but also what happens when control fails; at practices which defy orders, escape detection or fail to produce. In doing so the book problematises and extends the Foucauldian notion of biopolitics, providing a unique resource of cases and theory regarding the ways in which we live together with non-human others.