Life on ice : a history of new uses for cold blood / Joanna Radin.
By: Radin, Joanna [author.].
Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017Description: xii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780226417318 (cloth : alk. paper).Subject(s): Frozen blood | Blood -- Cryopreservation | Medicine -- Research -- History -- 20th century | Cryopreservation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Moral and ethical aspects | Medical anthropologyGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | QH324.9.C7 R33 2017 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000011747 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-293) and index.
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.