Remaking life & death : toward an anthropology of the biosciences / ed. by Sarah Franklin ...

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TextLanguage: Spanish Series: School of American Research advanced seminar seriesPublication details: Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 2003Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 372 p. : ill. : 24 cmISBN:

1930618190
9781930618190
1930618204
9781930618206

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Remaking life and death [Other title]

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QP 81 R384 2003

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Table of contents

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Animation and cessation: the remaking of life and death / Sarah Franklin and Margaret Lock -- On beginning and ending with apoptosis: cell death and biomedicine / Hannah Landecker -- Life/time warranty: rechargeable cells and extendable lives / Linda F. Hogle -- Ethical biocapital: new strategies of cell culture / Sarah Franklin -- Cell life and death, child life and death: genomic horizons, genetic diseases, family stories / Rayna Rapp -- On making up the good-as-dead in a utilitarian world / Margaret Lock -- Suspended animation: a brine shrimp essay / Corinne P. Hayden -- Life@sea: networking marine biodiversity into biotech futures / Stefan Helmreich -- Embryo tales / Lynn Morgan -- Cloning mutts, saving tigers: ethical emergents in technocultural dog worlds / Donna J. Haraway.

Summary: The boundaries of life now occupy a place of central concern among biological anthropologists. Because of the centrality of the modern biological definition of life to Euro-American medicine and anthropology, the definition of life itself and its contestation exemplify competing uses of knowledge.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Humanidades (4to. Piso)	QP 81 R384 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00000076642

Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-360) and index

Animation and cessation: the remaking of life and death / Sarah Franklin and Margaret Lock --
On beginning and ending with apoptosis: cell death and biomedicine / Hannah Landecker --
Life/time warranty: rechargeable cells and extendable lives / Linda F. Hogle --
Ethical biocapital: new strategies of cell culture / Sarah Franklin --
Cell life and death, child life and death: genomic horizons, genetic diseases, family stories / Rayna Rapp --
On making up the good-as-dead in a utilitarian world / Margaret Lock --
Suspended animation: a brine shrimp essay / Corinne P. Hayden --
Life@sea: networking marine biodiversity into biotech futures / Stefan Helmreich --
Embryo tales / Lynn Morgan --
Cloning mutts, saving tigers: ethical emergents in technocultural dog worlds / Donna J. Haraway.

The boundaries of life now occupy a place of central concern among biological anthropologists. Because of the centrality of the modern biological definition of life to Euro-American medicine and anthropology, the definition of life itself and its contestation exemplify competing uses of knowledge.

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