Culturing Life Free

Author: Hannah Landecker
Edition: annotated edition
Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B002JCSB6M

Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies

How did cells make the journey, one we take so much for granted, from their origin in living bodies to something that can be grown and manipulated on artificial media in the laboratory, a substantial biomass living outside a human body, plant, or animal? This is the question at the heart of Hannah Landecker's book. Download Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. She shows how cell culture changed the way we think about such central questions of the human condition as individuality, hybridity, and even immortality and asks what it means that we can remove cells from the spatial and temporal constraints of the body and "harness them to human intention."

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