Life on ice : a history of new uses for cold blood /

After the atomic bombing at the end of World War II, anxieties about survival in the nuclear age led scientists to begin stockpiling and freezing hundreds of thousands of blood samples from indigenous communities around the world. These samples were believed to embody potentially invaluable biologic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Radin, Joanna (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Temas:
1900-1999
Frozen blood.
Blood > Cryopreservation.
Medicine > Research > History > 20th century.
Cryopreservation of organs, tissues, etc. > Moral and ethical aspects.
Medical anthropology.
Blood Banks > history
Blood Banks > ethics
Cryopreservation > history
Biomedical Research > history
Biomedical Research > ethics
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Sang congelé.
Cryoconservation des organes, tissus, etc. > Aspect moral.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 21e siècle.
Sang > Cryoconservation.
Médecine > Recherche > Histoire > 20e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Frozen blood
Medical anthropology
Medicine > Research
Biobank
Kryokonservierung
Blutkonserve
Biomedizin
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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