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.