| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 362 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction : the politics of low temperature / Joanna Radin & Emma Kowal -- A cryopolitics to reclaim our frozen material states / Michael Bravo -- The rise of cryopower : biopolitics in the age of cryogenic life / Alexander Friedrich -- Ode to the ice bucket / Soraya de Chadarevian -- Nature and the refrigerating machine : the politics and production of cold in the nineteenth century / Rebecca Woods -- Stockpiling as a technique of preparedness : conserving the past for an unpredictable future / Frédéric Keck -- Reflections on the zone of the incomplete / Deborah Bird Rose -- Out of the glacier into the freezer : Ötzi the Iceman's disruptive timings, spacings, and mobilities / David Turnbull -- Beyond the life/not life binary : a feminist-Indigenous reading of cryopreservation, interspecies thinking and the new materialisms / Kim TallBear -- Suspense : cryopolitics of the body / Klaus Hoeyer -- The freezer program : value after life / Jonny Bunning -- The frozen archive, or defrosting derrida / Warwick Anderson -- Banking the forest : loss, hope and care in Hawaiian conservation / Thom van Dooren -- Freezing the ark : the cryopolitics of endangered species preservation / Matthew Chrulew -- The utopia for the golden frog of Panama / Eben Kirksey -- The cryopolitics of survival from the cold war to the present : a fugue / Charis Thompson -- Index |
| Summary |
The social, political, and cultural consequences of attempts to cheat death by freezing life |
| Analysis |
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 29, 2017) |
| Subject |
Cryopreservation of organs, tissues, etc.
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Cryopreservation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Methods
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Cryopreservation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Political aspects
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Death -- Psychological aspects.
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Politics, Practical.
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Cryopreservation
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Attitude to Death
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Politics
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politics.
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NATURE -- Reference.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biology.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- General.
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SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
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Politics, Practical
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Cryopreservation of organs, tissues, etc.
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Death -- Psychological aspects
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History of science.
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Anthropology.
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Nuclear issues.
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Environmental science, engineering & technology.
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Science.
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| Genre/Form |
Methods (Music)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Radin, Joanna, editor.
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Kowal, Emma, editor.
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| LC no. |
2016031905 |
| ISBN |
9780262338691 |
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0262338696 |
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9780262338707 |
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026233870X |
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