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Culturing life how cells became technologies

Title
Culturing life [electronic resource] : how cells became technologies / Hannah Landecker.
Author
Landecker, Hannah.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.

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American Council of Learned Societies.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org
Description
x, 276 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
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.
Uniform Title
  • ACLS Fellows' publications.
  • ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subject
  • Cell culture
  • Tissue culture
  • Biotechnology
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-271) and index.
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic text and image data.
Contents
Technologies of living substance -- Autonomy -- Immortality -- Mass reproduction -- HeLa -- Hybridity -- Cells then and now.
OCLC
(dli)HEB09113
Author
Landecker, Hannah.
Title
Culturing life [electronic resource] : how cells became technologies / Hannah Landecker.
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
Series
ACLS Fellows' publications.
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-271) and index.
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.
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Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Added Author
American Council of Learned Societies.
Found In:
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/
Other Form:
Original 9780674023284 9780674034761 (DLC) 2006049019
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