Culturing Life
How Cells Became Technologies
Published on 1. July 2009
288 pages
978-0-674-03990-2 (ISBN)
Description
Landecker shows how cell culture changed the way we think about such central questions of the human condition as individuality, hybridity, and even immortality and asks what it means that we can remove cells from the spatial constraints of the body and "harness them to human intention."
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, MA; London
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-03990-2 (9780674039902)
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10/2009
Harvard University Press
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Person
Hannah Landecker is Associate Professor of Sociology at University of California, Los Angeles.
Content
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Technologies of Living Substance 1 Autonomy 2 Immortality 3 Mass Reproduction 4 HeLa 5 Hybridity Epilogue: Cells Then and Now Notes Index
