Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies

by Hannah Landecker

Book Overview

How did cells make the journey, one we take so much for granted, from their origin in living bodies to something that can be grown and manipulated on artificial media in the laboratory, a substantial biomass living outside a human body, plant, or animal? 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674034767
• ISBN13: 9780674034761
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.8"