Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies

2007/01/01 by Hannah Landecker · 1 voice · 4 citations
Arts and Humanities · Neuroscience · Physics and Astronomy · #History of Science and Medicine #Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations #Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life

paper · doi:10.4159/9780674039902

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Abstract

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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