Culturing Life : How Cells Became Technologies / Hannah Landecker.
Landecker, Hannah, author.
2009
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Title Culturing Life : How Cells Became Technologies / Hannah Landecker.
Author Landecker, Hannah, author.
ISBN 9780674039902
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674039902
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright ©2010
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (288 p.)
Item Number 10.4159/9780674039902 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 571.6/38
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."
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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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