Remaking life & death
Subtitle: toward an anthropology of the biosciences
By: edited by Sarah Franklin and Margaret Lock
Contributors: Franklin, Sarah, 1960-; Lock, Margaret M
Edition: 1st ed
Series: School of American Research advanced seminar series
Publisher: School of American Research Press; James Currey
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Santa Fe; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
Subjects: Life (Biology) -- Social aspects; Medical anthropology; Physical anthropology; Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects; Biotechnology -- Social aspects; Death -- Social aspects
Other titles: Remaking life and death
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-360) and index
Table of contents: title: Animation and cessation: the remaking of life and death / Sarah Franklin and Margaret Lock; title: On beginning and ending with apoptosis: cell death and biomedicine / Hannah Landecker; title: Life/time warranty: rechargeable cells and extendable lives / Linda F. Hogle; title: Ethical biocapital: new strategies of cell culture / Sarah Franklin; title: Cell life and death, child life and death: genomic horizons, genetic diseases, family stories / Rayna Rapp; title: On making up the good-as-dead in a utilitarian world / Margaret Lock; title: Suspended animation: a brine shrimp essay / Corinne P. Hayden; title: Life@sea: networking marine biodiversity into biotech futures / Stefan Helmreich; title: Embryo tales / Lynn Morgan; title: Cloning mutts, saving tigers: ethical emergents in technocultural dog worlds / Donna J. Haraway