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Life on ice : a history of new uses for cold blood / Joanna Radin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Radin, Joanna, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frozen blood.
- Blood--Cryopreservation.
- Blood.
- Medicine--Research--History--20th century.
- Medicine.
- Cryopreservation of organs, tissues, etc--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Cryopreservation of organs, tissues, etc.
- Medical anthropology.
- Medicine--Research.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
- Contents:
- Preface: frozen spirits
- Introduction: within cold blood
- The technoscience of life at low temperature
- Latent life in biomedicine's ice age
- Temporalities of salvage
- "As yet unknown": life for the future
- "Before it's too late": life from the past
- Collecting, maintaining, reusing, and returning
- Managing the cold chain: making life mobile
- When futures arrive: lives after time
- Epilogue: thawing spirits.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226417318
- 022641731X
- OCLC:
- 956379475
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