Remaking life & death : toward an anthropology of the biosciences / edited by Sarah Franklin and Margaret Lock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Franklin, Sarah, 1960-

Lock, Margaret M.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

School of American Research advanced seminar series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Life (Biology)--Social aspects.

Life (Biology).

Medical anthropology.

Physical anthropology.

Human reproductive technology--Social aspects.

Human reproductive technology.

Biotechnology--Social aspects.

Biotechnology.

Death--Social aspects.

Death.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Remaking life and death

Place of Publication:

Santa Fe : School of American Research Press ; Oxford : James Currey, 2003.

Contents:

Animation and cessation: the remaking of life and death / Sarah Franklin and Margaret Lock

On beginning and ending with apoptosis: cell death and biomedicine / Hannah Landecker

Life/time warranty: rechargeable cells and extendable lives / Linda F. Hogle

Ethical biocapital: new strategies of cell culture / Sarah Franklin

Cell life and death, child life and death: genomic horizons, genetic diseases, family stories / Rayna Rapp

On making up the good-as-dead in a utilitarian world / Margaret Lock

Suspended animation: a brine shrimp essay / Corinne P. Hayden

Life@sea: networking marine biodiversity into biotech futures / Stefan Helmreich

Embryo tales / Lynn Morgan

Cloning mutts, saving tigers: ethical emergents in technocultural dog worlds / Donna J. Haraway.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-360) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

1930618190

1930618204

OCLC:

51613865