Life on Ice
A History of New Uses for Cold Blood
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Introduction: Within Cold Blood
Part 1 The Technoscience of Life at Low Temperature
Chapter One: Latent Life in Biomedicine’s Ice Age
Part 2 Temporalities of Salvage
Chapter Two: “As Yet Unknown”: Life for the Future
Chapter Three: “Before It’s Too Late”: Life from the Past
Part 3 Collecting, Maintaining, Reusing, and Returning
Chapter Four: Managing the Cold Chain: Making Life Mobile
Chapter Five: When Futures Arrive: Lives after Time
Epilogue: Thawing Spirits
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
Biological Sciences: Evolutionary Biology
History: Environmental History | History of Technology
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