For a more-than-human public health

The "more-than-human" has become an indispensable perspective in science and technology studies and in the social study of the life sciences more widely. In general, the more-than-human indicates that being, doing, living and relating is shaped not only by human but also by non-human worlds, materials and entities-be they animals, technologies, microbes or elements. This perspective takes multiple forms. Some scholars are influenced by studies on Actor Network Theory and, more recently, on "modes of existence" (Latour 2012) in the Anthropocene. Others are influenced by work on ontologies of practice Others emphasize new materialist approaches (Haraway 2016), particularly in feminist science studies, which aim to register "life in capitalist ruins" (Tsing 2015) where cross-species relations with critters and plants come to centre stage. Still others locate themselves within scholarship on "matters of care" (Puig de la Bellacasa 2017) and "ecologies of support" (Duclos and Criado 2020) that pushes feminist questions on the reproduction of life into ecological and more-than-human terrains. Finally, some look to ethnographic studies in indigenous spaces in the Amazon and Australia, which aim to provincialize modern Euro-American "life/non-life" distinctions (Povinelli 2016) and nature-culture dichotomies (Descola 2013), not least through the study of human-animal relations.