Remaking life & death : toward an anthropology of the biosciences /

Remaking life & death : toward an anthropology of the biosciences / Remaking life and death ed. by Sarah Franklin ... - 1st ed. - Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 2003 - xii, 372 p. : ill. : 24 cm - School of American Research advanced seminar series .

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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Vida (biología)--Aspectos sociales.
Antropología médica.

Reproduktionsmedizin Anthropologie Aufsatzsammlung Medizin Wissenschaftlich-technischer Fortschritt Sozialethik Aufsatzsammlung

QP 81 / R384 2003

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