Dolly Mixtures - The Remaking of Genealogy

A cultural analysis of Dolly, the cloned sheep.

List of contents

Acknowledgments ix
Origins 1
1. Sex 19
2. Capital 46
3. Nation 73
4. Colony 118
5. Death 158
Breeds 195
Notes 209
Bibliography 231
Index 245

About the author

Sarah Franklin is Professor of Social Studies of Biomedicine and Associate Director of the BIOS Centre for the study of bioscience, biomedicine, biotechnology, and society at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author of Embodied Progress: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception; a coauthor of Born and Made: An Ethnography of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis and Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception; and a coeditor of Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies, also published by Duke University Press.

Summary

A cultural analysis of Dolly, the cloned sheep.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Franklin
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.04.2007
• EAN: 9780822339038
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3903-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book; John Hope Franklin Center Book; A John Hope Franklin Center Book; John Hope Franklin Center Book
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Genetics, genetic engineering