Culturing life : how cells benace technologies / Hannah Landecker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Landecker, Hannah.

Series:

ACLS Fellows' publications.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cell culture.

Tissue culture.

Biotechnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 276 p. ) ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

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."

Contents:

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-271) and index.

ISBN:

9780674265271

0674265270

9780674039902

0674039904

OCLC:

979777207