{"id":2094,"date":"2019-09-11T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2019-08-02T10:51:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T09:51:52","slug":"whats-in-it-for-the-animals-symbiotically-considering-therapeutic-human-animal-relations-within-spaces-and-practices-of-care-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2019\/09\/11\/whats-in-it-for-the-animals-symbiotically-considering-therapeutic-human-animal-relations-within-spaces-and-practices-of-care-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s in it for the Animals? 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Attempting to perform and realise human imaginations of \u2018therapeutic\u2019 affects, spaces, and relationships can rely on processes that reduce animals\u2019 own opportunities for flourishing. Though equally, there are (cautious) questions as to whether\u2014in certain framings\u2014there might be some form of mutual benefit available to animals from participating in these \u2018therapeutic\u2019 interactions. The article highlights the range of dynamic relationships that can take place between humans and animals within encounters designed to be therapeutic, demonstrating that these are complex, multiply affective relationships, that produce a range of opportunities and constraints to individual and collective forms of being well. These human-animal entanglements highlight opportunities to think more critically about how to practice interspecies relationships and practices in ways that might provide opportunities for mutual forms of flourishing and more-than-human benefit.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to Richard Gorman discussing his article in the clip below:<\/p>\n<p><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2094-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2019\/08\/Gorman-Richard-What\u2019s-in-it-for-the-Animals.m4a?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2019\/08\/Gorman-Richard-What\u2019s-in-it-for-the-Animals.m4a\">https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2019\/08\/Gorman-Richard-What\u2019s-in-it-for-the-Animals.m4a<\/a><\/audio><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Summary by Richard Gorman Care farming is an emerging form of healthcare that aims to deploy farming practices as a type of therapeutic intervention, with human-animal relations framed as providing important opportunities for human health. The growing body of academic work on care farming links participation in a care farming scheme as having the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2019\/09\/11\/whats-in-it-for-the-animals-symbiotically-considering-therapeutic-human-animal-relations-within-spaces-and-practices-of-care-farming\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15028],"tags":[15044],"class_list":["post-2094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal-announcements","tag-research"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What&#039;s in it for the Animals? - Medical Humanities<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Richard Gorman considers the animals involved in care farming, an emerging form of healthcare that aims to deploy farming practices as a type of therapeutic intervention.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2019\/09\/11\/whats-in-it-for-the-animals-symbiotically-considering-therapeutic-human-animal-relations-within-spaces-and-practices-of-care-farming\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What&#039;s in it for the Animals? - Medical Humanities\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Richard Gorman considers the animals involved in care farming, an emerging form of healthcare that aims to deploy farming practices as a type of therapeutic intervention.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2019\/09\/11\/whats-in-it-for-the-animals-symbiotically-considering-therapeutic-human-animal-relations-within-spaces-and-practices-of-care-farming\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Medical Humanities\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-09-11T09:00:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Chris Pak\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Chris Pak\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-humanities\\\/2019\\\/09\\\/11\\\/whats-in-it-for-the-animals-symbiotically-considering-therapeutic-human-animal-relations-within-spaces-and-practices-of-care-farming\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-humanities\\\/2019\\\/09\\\/11\\\/whats-in-it-for-the-animals-symbiotically-considering-therapeutic-human-animal-relations-within-spaces-and-practices-of-care-farming\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Chris Pak\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-humanities\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0e11c1a9a0f1f9f2aa898a719652c44c\"},\"headline\":\"What\u2019s in it for the Animals? 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