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Cryopolitics: Frozen Life in a Melting World (MIT Press)
Joanna Radin
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Description for Cryopolitics: Frozen Life in a Melting World (MIT Press)
Hardcover. Editor(s): Radin, Joanna; Kowal, Emma. Num Pages: 376 pages, 26 b&w illus. BIC Classification: JHM; PDX; RNQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. .
The social, political, and cultural consequences of attempts to cheat death by freezing life. As the planet warms and the polar ice caps melt, naturally occurring cold is a resource of growing scarcity. At the same time, energy-intensive cooling technologies are widely used as a means of preservation. Technologies of cryopreservation support global food chains, seed and blood banks, reproductive medicine, and even the preservation of cores of glacial ice used to study climate change. In many cases, these practices of freezing life are an attempt to cheat death. Cryopreservation has contributed to the transformation of markets, ... Read more
The social, political, and cultural consequences of attempts to cheat death by freezing life. As the planet warms and the polar ice caps melt, naturally occurring cold is a resource of growing scarcity. At the same time, energy-intensive cooling technologies are widely used as a means of preservation. Technologies of cryopreservation support global food chains, seed and blood banks, reproductive medicine, and even the preservation of cores of glacial ice used to study climate change. In many cases, these practices of freezing life are an attempt to cheat death. Cryopreservation has contributed to the transformation of markets, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The MIT Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262035859
SKU
V9780262035859
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About Joanna Radin
Joanna Radin is Assistant Professor in the Program in History of Science and Medicine at Yale University. Emma Kowal is Professor of Anthropology at Deakin University, Melbourne. Joanna Radin is Assistant Professor in the Program in History of Science and Medicine at Yale University. Emma Kowal is Professor of Anthropology at Deakin University, Melbourne. Charis Thompson is Associate Professor of ... Read more
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