Cryopolitics
Frozen Life in a Melting World
- Hardcover
376 pages
- Release Date
24 March 2017
Summary
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 c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262035859 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262035855 |
| Author: | Joanna Radin, Emma Kowal |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 376 |
| Release Date: | 24 March 2017 |
| Weight: | 646g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Cryopolitics |
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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 Rhetoric and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Making Parents- The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies (MIT Press)
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