Remaking life & death : toward an anthropology of the biosciences
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Remaking life & death : toward an anthropology of the biosciences
（School of American Research advanced seminar series）
School of American Research Press , James Currey, 2003
1st ed
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Remaking life and death
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-360) and index
Contents of Works
- 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
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Description
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. On the one hand, "life" and "death" may be redefined as partial or contingent ("brain death"), or reconstituted altogether ("virtual" or "artificial life"). On the other hand, the finality and "reality" of death resists such classifications. This volume reflects a growing international concern about issues such as organ transplantation, new reproductive and genetic technologies and embryo research, and the necessity of cross-cultural comparison. The political economy of body parts, organ and tissue "harvesting," bio-prospecting, and the patenting of life-forms are explored herein, as well as governance and regulation in cloning, organ transplantation, tissue engineering, and artificial life systems procedures.
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