Culturing Life : : How Cells Became Technologies / / Hannah Landecker.
How did cells make the journey from their origin in living bodies to something that can be grown and manipulated on artificial media in the laboratory? This is the question at the heart of Hannah Landecker's book. She shows how cell culture changed the way we think about such central questions...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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| Other title: | Frontmatter -- 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 |
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| Summary: | How did cells make the journey from their origin in living bodies to something that can be grown and manipulated on artificial media in the laboratory? This is the question at the heart of Hannah Landecker's book. She 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." |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9780674039902 9783110756067 9783110442205 |
| DOI: | 10.4159/9780674039902 |
| Access: | restricted access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Hannah Landecker. |