Life on Ice: A History of New Uses for Cold Blood

by Joanna Radin

After the atomic bombing at the end of World War II, anxieties about survival in the nuclear age led scientists to begin stockpiling and freezing hundreds of thousands of blood samples from indigenous communities around the world. These samples were believed to embody potentially invaluable biological information about genetic ancestry, evolution, microbes, and much more. Today, they persist in freezers as part of a global tissue-based infrastructure...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022641731X
• ISBN13: 9780226417318
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"