Download e-book for kindle: Life on Ice: A History of New Uses for Cold Blood by Joanna Radin

By Joanna Radin

ISBN-10: 022641731X

ISBN-13: 9780226417318

After the atomic bombing on the finish of worldwide battle II, anxieties approximately survival within the nuclear age led scientists to start stockpiling and freezing millions of blood samples from indigenous groups worldwide. those samples have been believed to include probably helpful organic information regarding genetic ancestry, evolution, microbes, and lots more and plenty extra. this present day, they persist in freezers as a part of a world tissue-based infrastructure. In Life on Ice, Joanna Radin examines how and why those frozen blood samples formed the perform often called biobanking.

 

The chilly conflict initiatives Radin tracks have been intended to shape an everlasting overall archive of indigenous blood earlier than it was once altered through the polluting forces of modernity. Freezing allowed that blood to behave as a time-traveling source. Radin explores the original cultural and technical situations that created and gave momentum to the phenomenon of lifestyles on ice and exhibits how those preserved blood samples served because the construction blocks for biomedicine on the sunrise of the genomic age. In an period of lively moral, felony, and cultural debates approximately genetic privateness and identification, Life on Ice finds the bigger picture—how we came and the guarantees and difficulties concerned with discovering new makes use of for chilly human blood samples.

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