Culturing Life

How Cells Became Technologies

Hannah Landecker

  • 2008 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize, History of Science Society
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Technologies of Living Substance
  1. Autonomy
  2. Immortality
  3. Mass Reproduction
  4. HeLa
  5. Hybridity
  • Epilogue: Cells Then and Now
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Cover: Culturing Life

Hannah Landecker is Associate Professor of Sociology at University of California, Los Angeles.