Remaking Life and Death: Toward an Anthropology of the Biosciences
The boundaries of life now occupy a place of central concern among biological anthropologists. Because of the centrality of the modern biological definition of life to Euro-American medicine and anthropology, the definition of life itself and its contestation exemplify competing uses of knowledge. On the one hand, "life" and "death" may be redefined as partial or contingent ("brain death"), or reconstituted altogether ("virtual" or "artificial life"). On the other hand, the finality and...
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Ten contributions from biological and medical anthropologists consider the social implications of recent advances in biotechnology. A sampling of topics includes the commodification of the organs of brain dead patients; the reactions of various governments to cloning technologies; and the medical experiences of persons with genetic illnesses. The papers were originally presented at a seminar held at the School of American Research in Santa Fe in May 2000. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgments1Animation and Cessation: The Remaking of Life and Death32On Beginning and Ending with Apoptosis: Cell Death and Biomedicine233Life/Time Warranty: Rechargeable Cells and Extended Lives614Ethical Biocapital: New Strategies of Cell Culture975Cell Life and Death, Child Life and Death: Genomic Horizons, Genetic Diseases, Family Stories1296On Making Up the Good-as-Dead in a Utilitarian World1657Suspended Animation: A Brine Shrimp Essay1938Life@Sea: Networking Marine Biodiversity into Biotech Futures2279Embryo Tales26110Cloning Mutts, Saving Tigers, Ethical Emergents in Technocultural Dog Worlds293References329Index361
