Tone Druglitrø

• Dam, Mie S. & Druglitrø, Tone (2025). Choreographies of nearness: self and other in personal cancer immune therapy research. BioSocieties. ISSN 1745-8552. doi: 10.1057/s41292-025-00373-2. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This article explores the practical and material configurations of the ‘person(al)’ in experimental cancer immune therapy, where immune cells from the patient’s cancer tissue are used to eliminate incurable cancers. Drawing on ethnography from Denmark, we examine personal cancer immune therapy as a carefully steered practice—a choreography—through which tissues and cells originating from the same person are reconfigured in unpredictable ways. Cancer tissue, conventionally perceived as a dangerous ‘other’, holds the potential to act as a lifesaving ‘self’ in the form of a personal cure. Conversely, T-cells, conventionally perceived as protectors of the embodied ‘self’, can act as life-threatening ‘others’, endangering the person from whom they originated. We develop the notion of ‘choreographies of nearness’ to analyse how immunological and ontological relations are enacted in the clinical and experimental practices of personal cancer immune therapies. Tracing the execution of clinical protocols in ethnographic detail, we show that this emerging medical practice involves choreographies through which tissues and cells are enacted as neither strictly self nor other, but as ‘ near ’ the embodied person from whom they derive. Unpacking the potential of the ‘near self’, we expose the laborious and high-stakes ways of doing the ‘person(al)’ in this therapy.

• Druglitrø, Tone; Morsman, Silje Rebecca & Asdal, Kristin (2025). Choreographies of co-modification: instrumentizing cod for immunology and the economy. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. ISSN 0391-9714. 47. doi: 10.1007/s40656-025-00677-3. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  How to make sense of the struggle of scientists in their efforts to answer demands to contribute simultaneously to the advancement of science and the economy? The life sciences are understood to be particularly affected by the increased institutional and political expectations to engender scientific innovations and value creation Fochler et al., (Minerva, 54:175–200, 2016). The expectations are often closely linked to the tools that life scientists work with, such as new sequencing technologies or model organisms that are invested with hopes of novelty. The experimental life of the Atlantic cod, which is our object of study, serves here as an entry point for understanding this significant feature of contemporary life sciences. The paper shows how equipping a species to do experimental work is not necessarily about having it perform only one type of job Clarke & Fujimura (1992) or performing in one, and exclusively one, site. On the contrary, an experimental organism may be promising and interesting due to how it can be put to work to perform both in and for science, and in and for the economy, simultaneously. In analyzing the double entendre of experimental work, this paper draws upon the analytical concepts co-modification and choreography that have been carefully crafted in close empirical studies. The notion co-modification is put to work together with the notion of choreography to delineate both the material and semiotic work that go into the drawing together of the inside and outside of the lab and the material arrangements that shape the rhythm of a disciplined and controlled lab site. Together we refer to this as choreographies of co-modification.

• Druglitrø, Tone & Asdal, Kristin (2024). Experimenting with care and cod: On document-practices, versions of care and fish as the new experimental animal. Social Studies of Science. ISSN 0306-3127. doi: 10.1177/03063127231223904. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  A key ambition in care studies has been to study care in practice and as practice. By turning towards practices, care studies has rendered visible and acknowledged important work that is not captured through looking at formal procedures or official and written materials, such as policy documents and medical protocols. In this literature, document materials and the written have often been seen as unable to demonstrate and address the ‘specificities of care’ (Mol et al., 2010, p. 9). We challenge this view by showing how pragmatically-oriented approaches can be extended to the procedural and formalized aspects of care practices. We draw upon fieldwork in the life sciences—comparative immunology—investigated through experiments on Atlantic cod ( Gadus Morhua). How to care for fish is a contested domain; many uncertainties exist around how to care for fish so that legal requirements are met. We ask: How are existing legal and ethical principles and procedures put to work in cod immunology and animal research? By what document-practices and document-tools is care for cod in research negotiated and settled? How does the cod stand out as an object of care in the life sciences? Our article answers these questions by empirically teasing out how scientists navigate the terrain and arguing for the importance of bringing the document-based realities of animal research into analysis. We do this by delineating three different versions of care: procedural care, skilled care, and dispassionate care.

• Druglitrø, Tone; Paul, Katharina & Pichelstorfer, Anna (2024). Tracing Data Flows in Norway and Austria: A Comparative Study of Vaccination Data Governance. Science & Technology Studies. 37(4), s. 1–20. doi: 10.23987/sts.120252. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The increased importance of datafication in different domains of society, and health in particular, has generated much attention in STS, specifically in the Nordic context. While much of this literature tackles newly emerging forms of data governance, we focus on a historically established and mundane data practice: that of recording vaccinations in vaccine registries. We mobilise the concept of data flows to compare the link between registry practices and governance in two countries: Norway – a data intensive welfare state - and Austria, which we label ‘data hesitant’. We ask: What is the role of registries in vaccination governance? How do data practices shape and reflect relations between citizens, health providers and the state? We show that the governance of immunity is interlocked with the material and political circumstances that make data flow. The paper makes visible the benefits of doing situated comparisons for better understandings of data practices across countries.

• Druglitrø, Tone (2023). Nonhuman Primates in Public Health: Between Biological Standardization, Conservation and Care. Journal of the History of Biology. ISSN 0022-5010. 56, s. 455–477. doi: 10.1007/s10739-023-09721-z. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Abstract By the mid-1960s, nonhuman primates had become key experimental organisms for vaccine development and testing, and was seen by many scientists as important for the future success of this field as well as other biomedical undertakings. A major hindrance to expanding the use of nonhuman primates was the dependency on wild-captured animals. In addition to unreliable access and poor animal health, procurement of wild primates involved the circulation of infectious diseases and thus also public health hazards. This paper traces how the World Health Organization (WHO) became involved in the issue of primate supply, and shows how by the late 1960s concerns for vaccine development and the conservation of wildlife began to converge. How did the WHO navigate public health and animal health? What characterized the response and with what implications for humans and animals? The paper explores how technical standards of care were central to managing the conflicting concerns of animal and human health, biological standardization, and conservation. While the WHO’s main aim was to prevent public health risks, I argue that imposing new standards of care implied establishing new hierarchies of humans and animals, and cultures of care.

• Druglitrø, Tone (2022). Procedural care: Licensing practices in animal research. Science as Culture. ISSN 0950-5431. doi: 10.1080/09505431.2021.2025215. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bjørkdahl, Kristian & Druglitrø, Tone (2019). When Authority Goes Viral: Digital Communication and Health Expertise on pandemi.no. I Bjørkdahl, Kristian & Carlsen, Benedicte (Red.), Pandemics, Publics, and Politics - Staging Responses to Public Health Crises. Palgrave Pivot. ISSN 9789811328015. s. 75–91. doi: 10.1007/978-981-13-2802-2_6. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Druglitrø, Tone (2017). "Skilled Care" and the Making of Good Science. Science, Technology and Human Values. ISSN 0162-2439. 43(4), s. 649–670. doi: 10.1177/0162243916688093. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This article investigates the construction of laboratory animal science as a version of “good science.” In the 1950s, a transnational community of scientists initiated large-scale standardization of animals for biomedicine, which included the standardization of care of laboratory animals as well as the development of guidelines and regulations on laboratory animal use. The article traces these developments and investigates how the standardization work took part in enacting laboratory animals as compound objects of care—and laboratory animal science as being an intrinsically ethical practice—as good science. Importantly, the analysis shows how technological development is inextricably accompanied by ethics, as it is the result of complex social organization involving multiple ethical commitments. By investigating the development of laboratory animal science historically, it is possible to tease out how values, norms, and standards have been made integral to specific practices in the first place and how they have developed and been sustained over time. The article contributes to current concerns in science and technology studies about how life is made, valued, and ordered at the intersection of science and society and in biomedicine, including how certain values and positions of valuation come to count as authoritative and others not. © 2017 SAGE Publications

• Asdal, Kristin & Druglitrø, Tone (2017). Modifying the biopolitical collective. The law as a moral technology. I Asdal, Kristin; Druglitrø, Tone & Hinchliffe, Steve (Red.), Humans, Animals and Biopolitics: The More Than Human Condition. Routledge. ISSN 9781472448682. doi: 10.4324/9781315587639-4. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Human-animal co-existence is central to a politics of life, how we order societies, and to debates about who ‘we’ humans think ‘we’ are. In other words, our ways of understanding and ordering human-animal relations have economic and political implications and affect peoples’ everyday lives. 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, multi-logic and multiple ways in which lives are and have been assembled, disassembled, practised and possibly policed and politicized. Instead of asking only how control and knowledge are and have been extended over life, the chapters in this book also look at what happens when control fails, at practices which defy orders, escape detection, fail to produce or only loosely hang together. In doing so the book problematises and extends the Foucauldian notion of biopolitics that has been such a central analytical concept in studies of human-animal relations and provides a unique resource of cases and theoretical refinements regarding the ways in which we live together with “more than human others”.

• Asdal, Kristin; Druglitrø, Tone & Hinchliffe, Steve (2017). Introduction. The more than human condition: Sentient creatures and versions of biopolitics. I Asdal, Kristin; Druglitrø, Tone & Hinchliffe, Steve (Red.), Humans, Animals and Biopolitics: The More Than Human Condition. Routledge. ISSN 9781472448682. doi: 10.4324/9781315587639-1. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Human-animal co-existence is central to a politics of life, how we order societies, and to debates about who ‘we’ humans think ‘we’ are. In other words, our ways of understanding and ordering human-animal relations have economic and political implications and affect peoples’ everyday lives. 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, multi-logic and multiple ways in which lives are and have been assembled, disassembled, practised and possibly policed and politicized. Instead of asking only how control and knowledge are and have been extended over life, the chapters in this book also look at what happens when control fails, at practices which defy orders, escape detection, fail to produce or only loosely hang together. In doing so the book problematises and extends the Foucauldian notion of biopolitics that has been such a central analytical concept in studies of human-animal relations and provides a unique resource of cases and theoretical refinements regarding the ways in which we live together with “more than human others”.

• Druglitrø, Tone (2016). Care and tinkering in the animal house. Conditioning monkeys for poliomyelitis research and public health work. I Bjørkdahl, Kristian & Druglitrø, Tone (Red.), Animal Housing and Human-Animal Relations: Politics, Practices and Infrastructures. Routledge. ISSN 9781138854116. s. 151–166. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This book provides an in-depth investigation into the practices of animal housing systems with international contributions from across the humanities and social sciences. The physical infrastructures of animal housing are part of a much broader sociocultural and political infrastructure, where the material reality of housing systems combines with human and animal agents, with politics, and with practices. This book explores material technologies from the perspective that these are integrated parts of a larger biopolitical infrastructure and questions how animal housing systems, and the physical infrastructures that surround central human-animal practices, come into being. It explores what kind of practices and relations develop around these physical structures, and by whom, and for whom, they are developed.

• Bjørkdahl, Kristian & Druglitrø, Tone (2016). Animal Housing/Housing Animals: Nodes of politics, practices and infrastructures. I Bjørkdahl, Kristian & Druglitrø, Tone (Red.), Animal Housing and Human-Animal Relations: Politics, Practices and Infrastructures. Routledge. ISSN 9781138854116. s. 1–14. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This book provides an in-depth investigation into the practices of animal housing systems with international contributions from across the humanities and social sciences. The physical infrastructures of animal housing are part of a much broader sociocultural and political infrastructure, where the material reality of housing systems combines with human and animal agents, with politics, and with practices. This book explores material technologies from the perspective that these are integrated parts of a larger biopolitical infrastructure and questions how animal housing systems, and the physical infrastructures that surround central human-animal practices, come into being. It explores what kind of practices and relations develop around these physical structures, and by whom, and for whom, they are developed.

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• Asdal, Kristin; Druglitrø, Tone & Hinchliffe, Steve (2017). Humans, Animals and Biopolitics: The More Than Human Condition. Routledge. ISBN 9781472448682. 224 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Human-animal co-existence is central to a politics of life, how we order societies, and to debates about who ‘we’ humans think ‘we’ are. In other words, our ways of understanding and ordering human-animal relations have economic and political implications and affect peoples’ everyday lives. 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, multi-logic and multiple ways in which lives are and have been assembled, disassembled, practised and possibly policed and politicized. Instead of asking only how control and knowledge are and have been extended over life, the chapters in this book also look at what happens when control fails, at practices which defy orders, escape detection, fail to produce or only loosely hang together. In doing so the book problematises and extends the Foucauldian notion of biopolitics that has been such a central analytical concept in studies of human-animal relations and provides a unique resource of cases and theoretical refinements regarding the ways in which we live together with “more than human others”.

• Bjørkdahl, Kristian & Druglitrø, Tone (2016). Animal Housing and Human-Animal Relations: Politics, Practices and Infrastructures. Routledge. ISBN 9781138854116. 215 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This book provides an in-depth investigation into the practices of animal housing systems with international contributions from across the humanities and social sciences. The physical infrastructures of animal housing are part of a much broader sociocultural and political infrastructure, where the material reality of housing systems combines with human and animal agents, with politics, and with practices. This book explores material technologies from the perspective that these are integrated parts of a larger biopolitical infrastructure and questions how animal housing systems, and the physical infrastructures that surround central human-animal practices, come into being. It explores what kind of practices and relations develop around these physical structures, and by whom, and for whom, they are developed.

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• Druglitrø, Tone (2023). Experimenting with care and cod: On document-practices, versions of care and fish as the new experimental animal. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Druglitrø, Tone (2023). "Where is memory, that's the question". Choreographies of memory and cod in comparative immunology. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This paper explores the new role of fish in immunology and the possible implications it has for how biological life is compared and valued in the life sciences. To do this, I share empirical insights from recent ethnographic fieldwork among immunologists in Norway working to map the immune system of the Atlantic cod. I focus on a specific part of this fieldwork, where we followed scientists doing challenge experiments to identify specificity in the cod’s immune responses. The cod is of interest to the scientists because it is known to have a “poor antibody response” yet still being able to reproduce and live sustainable lives. Where immunological memory is located in cod, is described as the “cod immune puzzle”, and if solved promises to meet challenges of innovation in cod aqua culture as well as the treatment of autoimmune disease in humans. This paper is a first effort to unfold the multiple and intersecting temporalities at play in doing challenge experiments. In doing this, I hope to tease out the choreographies of time and temporalities required for doing experimental work on cod – a non-model organism - that aims to understand immunological memory, and to say something about how the cod immune system mapping represents new trajectories in immunology that is oriented towards sustainable life through diversity and involves new ways of valuing fish and fish-human relations.

• Druglitrø, Tone (2023). Challenge experiments and choreographies of cod immunology. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Torbjørnsen, Regine Rørstad; Druglitrø, Tone; Mubalegh, Naid & Hobæk, Bård (2022). Tenke som en rotte - Vinciane Despret. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Stilling, Marie; Asdal, Kristin & Druglitrø, Tone (2022). Forskningsdagene: Hvalrossen Freya. Fornuft og følelser. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Berg, Siv Frøydis; Druglitrø, Tone & Moseng, Ole Georg (2021). Vaksiner i historien. [Internet]. Nasjonalbiblioteket. doi: https:/www.nb.no/hva-skjer/vaksiner-i-historien/. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Druglitrø, Tone (2021). Procedural Care: Licensing Practices in Animal Research. doi: https:/www.dasts.dk/wp-content/uploads/Programme-NOSTS-2021.pdf. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Druglitrø, Tone & Gyllenklev, Karin (2021). Försöksdjuren - om liven som används i jakten på kunskap. Podme. doi: https:/podme.com/no/episode/419635/. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jakobsen, Kjetill Sigurd; Johansen, Finn-Eirik; Qiao, Shuo-Wang; Asdal, Kristin; Druglitrø, Tone & Morsman, Silje Rebecca (2021). Torsken skrotet deler av immunforsvaret. Hva kan vi lære av det? doi: https:/www.aftenposten.no/viten/i/jBR2ko/torsken-skrotet-deler-av-immunforsvaret-hva-kan-vi-laere-av-det. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Det er ikke tilfeldig vi går til torsken for å forstå mer av immunsystemet.

• Druglitrø, Tone (2021). Procedural Care: Licensing Practices in Animal Research. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Druglitrø, Tone (2021). Synchronizing multispecies lifetimes: The primate problem in public health and medicine. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Druglitrø, Tone (2021). Forsökdjuren - om liven som används i jakten på kunskap. [Internet]. PodMe. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Druglitrø, Tone (2021). Vaksiner i historien. [Internet]. Nasjonalbiblioteket. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Druglitrø, Tone (2021). Procedural Care: Licensing Practices in Animal Research. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Druglitrø, Tone (2021). Liv Emma Thorsen 2020. Dyrenes by.Hover, klover og klør i Kristiania 1859-1925. Forlaget Press, Oslo. 351 sider. Tidsskrift for kulturforskning. ISSN 1502-7473. 20(2), s. 203–106. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jakobsen, Kjetill Sigurd; Johansen, Finn-Eirik; Qiao, Shuo Wang; Asdal, Kristin; Druglitrø, Tone & Morsman, Silje Rebecca (2021). Torsken skrotet deler av immunforsvaret. Hva kan vi lære av det? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Druglitrø, Tone (2020). Om mennesker og virus. [TV]. NRK. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Druglitrø, Tone (2020). Vaksinemotstandens fall | Forskningsetikk. Forskningsetikk. ISSN 2387-3094. 3. doi: https:/www.forskningsetikk.no/ressurser/magasinet/2020-3/vaksinemotstandens-fall/. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Mens alle venter på en covid-19-vaksine, er det tøffe tider for vaksinemotstandere. Omtale av boken The Doctor Who Fooled The World.

• Druglitrø, Tone (2020). Virusutbrudd er et økologisk problem. doi: https:/www.vl.no/meninger/virusutbrudd-er-et-okologisk-problem/794804. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Druglitrø, Tone (2020). Mennesker og virus. Hvem har skylda for coronaviruset? [TV]. Norsk Rikskringkasting. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Druglitrø, Tone (2020). Virusutbrudd er et økologisk problem. Avisa Vårt land. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Druglitrø, Tone (2020). Utfordrer samspillet mellom dyr og menneske. [Internet]. forskning.no. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Druglitrø, Tone (2020). Vaksinemotstandens fall? Forskningsetikk. ISSN 1502-6353. 20(3), s. 26–27. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Druglitrø, Tone (2019). Negotiating monkey lifetimes: Exploring practices of quarantining, containment and trade of laboratory animals. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Druglitrø, Tone (2019). "Paper Care": Animal Research Applications as Genre. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Druglitrø, Tone (2019). Å studere etikk og verdier i praksis: Materiell-semiotiske perspektiver på menneske-dyr relasjoner. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Druglitrø, Tone (2019). Makt og bestialitet under det franske eneveldet. Salongen.no. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Druglitrø, Tone; Hanson, Jens; Mäkitie, Tuukka & Reinertsen, Hilde (2019). Tverrfaglighet under press. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Druglitrø, Tone; Ingierd, Helene & Torp, Ingrid S. (2018). Dyreforsøk er vanskelig, derfor trenger vi etiske retningslinjer. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Druglitrø, Tone (2018). Paper care, or the exercise of harm-benefit analysis in the animal research apparatus. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Druglitrø, Tone (2018). Instrumentalitet og omsorg i menneske-dyr relasjoner. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Druglitrø, Tone (2018). Domestisering, omsorg og instrumentalitet. Kommentar til boka Domestication gone wild (red. Swanson, Lien & Ween, 2018). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Druglitrø, Tone (2018). Hva sier dyrene? Salongen – nettidsskrift for filosofi og idéhistorie. ISSN 2703-7053. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  BOKOMTALE: Hva prøver egentlig rotten i labyrinten på, og hva lærer vitenskapen av eksperimentet? Vinciane Despret tar et kritisk blikk på dyreeksperimenter, og argumenterer for en mer nysgjerrig tilnærming.

• Druglitrø, Tone & Asdal, Kristin (2018). Accounts that may move: Material-semiotics and the more-than-human condition. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Druglitrø, Tone (2017). Texts as infrastructure. The global governance of viral diseases and the emerging problem of connectedness. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lundblad, Michael & Druglitrø, Tone (2017). Ebola Zombies and Terrorist Animals?: Welcome to World War Z. The BIODIAL Blog. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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