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Author Landecker, Hannah.

Title Culturing life [electronic resource] : how cells became technologies / Hannah Landecker.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ACLS Humanities E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description x, 276 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Series ACLS Fellows' publications.
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-271) and index.
Contents Technologies of living substance -- Autonomy -- Immortality -- Mass reproduction -- HeLa -- Hybridity -- Cells then and now.
Summary 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.
Reproduction 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.
Subject Cell culture.
Tissue culture.
Biotechnology.
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies.
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
Other Form: Original 9780674023284 9780674034761 (DLC) 2006049019
Standard No. 2027/heb09113 hdl

 
    
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