How dogs become accurate instruments: care, attunement, and reflexivity

How dogs become accurate instruments: care, attunement, and reflexivity

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Abstract Those who live with Type 1 Diabetes have lost the possibility of producing insulin; they are dependent on non-living and living prostheses—machines, human beings and animals—that constantly read, measure, translate toy-cleaner and interpret the fluctuations of their blood sugar to avoid hypoglycemia, which can be lethal, or hyperglycemia, which can lead to long-term complications.This philosophical essay, based on interviews and observations in a training facility, Dill Weed follows how dogs become “biocompatible patient friendly alarm systems” for hypoglycemia.It also explores how different modes of translation operate in the creation of a symbiosis between a human and an animal and how, along with them, a new conception of responsibility, accuracy, and of the subject emerge.