Remaking life and death: Towards an anthropology of the Bioscienc

The definition of life is central to Euro-American medicine and anthropology, however, its "reality" resists classification. This volume reflects the growing international concern about issues relating to this subject, discussing topics such as organ transplantation and cloning.
Contents: Introduction - animations and cessations - the remaking of life and death, Sarah Franklin and Margaret Lock; on beginning and ending with apoptosis - cells and biomedicine, Hannah Landecker; life/time warranty - rechargeable cells and extendable lives, Linda F. Hogle; culturing biology - cells lines for the second millennium, Sarah Franklin; cell life and child death - genomic histories, genetic disease, family stories, Rayna Rapp; on making up the good-as-dead in a utilitarian world, Margaret Lock; suspended animation - a brine shrimp essay, Cori 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.