Culturing life : how cells became technologies / Hannah Landecker.
- Landecker, Hannah
- Date:
- 2007
- Books
- Online
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About this work
Description
Examines the history of cultured cells; discussing the autonomy of a cell in relation to the body, their immortality, mass reproduction, the HeLa cell line, and hybridity.
Publication/Creation
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
Physical description
x, 276 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents
Technologies of living substance -- Autonomy -- Immortality -- Mass reproduction -- HeLa -- Hybridity -- Cells then and now.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-271) and index.
Reproduction note
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Fellows' Publications]) ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.