Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies

By Hannah Landecker

Book Overview

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 this text.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674023285
• ISBN13: 9780674023284
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 8.3"