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Author:
Radin, Joanna, author.
Title:
Life on ice : a history of new uses for cold blood / Joanna Radin.
Publisher:
The University of Chicago Press,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
xii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Frozen blood.
Blood--Cryopreservation.
Medicine--History--History--20th century.
Cryopreservation of organs, tissues, etc.--Moral and ethical aspects.
Medical anthropology.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Preface: frozen spirits -- Introduction: within cold blood -- The technoscience of life at low temperature -- Latent life in biomedicine's ice age -- Temporalities of salvage -- "As yet unknown": life for the future -- "Before it's too late": life from the past -- Collecting, maintaining, reusing, and returning -- Managing the cold chain: making life mobile -- When futures arrive: lives after time -- Epilogue: thawing spirits.
ISBN:
022641731X
9780226417318
OCLC:
(OCoLC)956379475
LCCN:
2016033177
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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