Culturing Life : How Cells Became Technologies.

By:

Landecker, Hannah

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780674039902

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Culturing LifeDDC classification:

571.6/38

LOC classification:

QH585

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Contents:

Intro -- 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.

Summary: 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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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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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