Culturing Life - How Cells Became Technologies

Informationen zum Autor Hannah Landecker Klappentext 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.¿ Zusammenfassung 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.“

Product details

• Authors: Hannah Landecker, Landecker Hannah
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2009
• EAN: 9780674034761
• ISBN: 978-0-674-03476-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology; SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Biotechnology, MEDICAL / Biotechnology, biotechnology, History of Science, Biology, life sciences, Cellular biology (cytology), Medical equipment and techniques