Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy

by Sarah Franklin

Book Overview

While the creation of Dolly the sheep, the world's most famous clone, triggered an enormous amount of discussion about human cloning, in Dolly Mixtures the anthropologist Sarah Franklin looks beyond that much-rehearsed controversy to some of the other reasons why the iconic animal's birth and death were significant. Building on the work of historians and anthropologists, Franklin reveals Dolly as the embodiment of agricultural, scientific,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082233920X
• ISBN13: 9780822339205
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.1"